{"id":3737,"date":"2015-02-11T00:16:13","date_gmt":"2015-02-10T23:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grendelman.net\/wp\/?p=3737"},"modified":"2015-02-11T00:16:13","modified_gmt":"2015-02-10T23:16:13","slug":"introducing-trackserver-wordpress-plugin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grendelman.net\/wp\/introducing-trackserver-wordpress-plugin\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing Trackserver WordPress plugin"},"content":{"rendered":"

A while ago, I wrote a post titled “Self-hosted live online GPS tracking with Android<\/a>“, in which I evaluated a few Android apps that can be used for, you guessed it, live online location tracking. The idea is, that you have your phone periodicially send your location to a web service while you’re on the go. The web service stores the location updates and optionally publishes them on a map.<\/p>\n

While there are some apps that do this, there aren’t many (free) options for hosting your own server. That’s why I decided to write my own, and do it as a free and open source WordPress<\/a> plugin, to make it as accessible as possible. Please meet Trackserver<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Trackserver is designed to work with TrackMe<\/a> and OruxMaps<\/a>. OsmAnd<\/a> support is on the roadmap and I’m thinking about adding GpsGate<\/a> support. All of these apps offer the possibility to periodically post location updates to a web URL that you can specify. Your own WordPress blog with the Trackserver plugin can ‘listen’ on such a URL to receive the updates and store them in a database. The plugin also offers a WordPress shortcode<\/a> to include maps with your GPS tracks in your posts and pages, using the fantastic Leaflet<\/a> library. Collecting and publishing your tracks has never been easier, at least not in a self-hosted website!<\/p>\n

A short list of Trackserver’s features:<\/p>\n