Locus Map is a great outdoor navigation app that I've been playing with and enjoying lately. It is an extremely configurable and powerful app which simply can't be reviewed in one blog post, so I will cover some specific features as I explore them. In this first article about Locus Map I will talk about location sharing.
There are many reasons you might want to share your location, whether as a one-time manual update or through real-time tracking. For hikers, one of the most important reasons is when hiking alone - having someone know your whereabouts could be lifesaving in the event of an accident or emergency.
It is also important to be able to share some specific location on the map, for example a meeting point, a campsite or simply a waypoint, so that others can easily find it.
There are various different ways for location sharing and this app seems to cover them all.
Glympse is an application that specializes in real time location sharing. A free version is available with features that are sufficient for hikers.
Glympse is a fast, free, and simple way to temporarily share your real-time location with anyone. The tracking is based on GPS, is temporary and secure – and Glympse recipients don’t need to download an app to see the shared location - they will instead receive a link which they can open in any web browser, on their computer or mobile. The web page in the browser will display a map with approximately the last kilometer of the shared trail.
