I’m looking for recommendations for an Android app to track and report GPS-type data (if such an app exists). Specifically, I’m hoping to be able to extract stops, origin/destination, roads/route traveled, and speed information.
Two use cases:
- Friend does an ad-hoc delivery service where requests are phoned in when they’re needed rather than scheduled ahead of time. The ability to see where they started, where they went, and what roads/distance they traveled as they scurry about all day without having to enter it all manually into a map program later on would be invaluable to calculating expenses.
- Same friend was pulled over, while I was also in the vehicle, for speeding but was definitely not exceeding the speed limit. I would’ve loved to be able to pull up some GPS data that said what speed we were going at the time on the road in question.
You can use GPSLogger to record it in local or send it to whatever service you want.
If you’re into selfhosting you can use traccar which is focused into fleet management so it’s easy to get reports on the trips made.
As for your second point, I wouldn’t trust the GPS for this, it can say you weren’t moving since it only checks every so often to record the data, or maybe it says you actually were speeding because the two points it used to calculate the data weren’t the actual points you were at that time.
A dashcam would be better suited for this. I’m not sure how they work, but most probably they can be connected to read data from your car which would be more trust worthy to whoever might decide if you were actually speeding.
I use GPSLogger to create my monthly travel log for my employer. You can fine-tune it pretty well and it works almost as well as Google’s location timeline while not having to rely on Google’s appetite for personal data.
I use its built-in ssh upload feature to get my data transferred to my SBC at home.