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A few weeks ago I was trying to find some out of town guests who had become lost. The guests could only read street signs to me and I had to look up their location as best I could, they were borrowing a N900 with a prepaid voice and SMS SIM.
Are there any location sharing apps for the N900 comparable to tangoGPS on the openmoko or more modern apps for other OSs? Unfortunately tangoGPS and the associated location servers appear to be gone from the internet.
Ideally the app would either report location when active to a server like tangoGPS did or even better if it could also format the GPS coordinates into a SMS that could be used in a mapping app.
I see this on other phones and am surprised how little info Nokia includes, just your city, when you set geolocation in your IM status.
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Comments about location2sms have me excited, is there a built .deb for N900?

location2sms

I have my IM status location on all the time, so I have gotten used to how it works.

It will share your location from A-GPS if enabled, this will only be "District level" so villages and towns, due to "Coarse Accuracy" of A-GPS.
If you switch on any GPS application and get a fix you will be on "Fine Accuracy" mode, this "Street Level" will be shown on your IM status.

link for that

https://gitorious.org/location2sms

Actually, smscon would have been perfect in your case: send an sms with the location code-word and the receiving n900 switches on the gps, takes a fix and sends lat/long to you by sms along with a url to see the location on a map. Gps then switches off, smscon awaits your further instructions. Can also be asked to send interval tracking data.

Thanks for other info from folk....

All that sounds very interesting but how many of your visitors have N900s? Any solution that assumes that both parties have an N900 is pretty much doomed. It sounds like sixwheelbeast's location sharing via IM is about the only portable option.

Or use the low-tech solution. Type your coordinates in an SMS

I have an extra N900 for visitors without a local sim to use.
It seems that whatsapp can send location though I dont know if that can be exported easily to maps.
The odds of me successfully explaining where to find GPS coordinates for someone to cut/paste into another app seems very low.

I found a .deb for location2sms_2.1.1_armel assuming it is a mod from N9/Meego it actually installed just fine so how to execute(also changed my user agent to N9 and grabbed it from OVI, this also (surprise/unusual)installed happily in HAM)?
Even running the bin with meecolay and run-standalone.sh on /opt/location2sms/bin/location2sms uses big %CPU but nothing actually ever happens, no crash to error or anything until the system bogs down from what I assume to swap overload(confirmed with conky) and reboots.
After some research and watching the videos for location2sms I have decided if I can get it to run is the ideal I have been looking for since it has an Android port for non Maemo/Meego geeks and it doesn't require a central location server snooping our travel info.
Anyone have this running correctly on the N900?

Here are the links for more info, cant believe it is not on the repos!
already easy available for every flavor of symbian, meego, and android, future plan for IOS, Windows Phone, Tizen, and BlackBerry (PlayBook and BB10) making it a pretty universal app especially in the future.

have to scroll down a bit but it won an award for the Meego port
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=83761&page=68

http://location2sms.anavi.org/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnDKL...ature=youtu.be

for droids
https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...i.location2sms