Snap Map for Web VS OwnTracks

If you go to the Snapchat map Snapchat map in that area, you can see the snaps. Source: over 1 year ago

I just learned that you can view snap maps without having a Snapchat account/app (https://map.snapchat.com/) and it did help me realize how ignorant my assumptions about a lot of countries were. Source: about 2 years ago

I recently found out about this site while reading about Ukraine. Are there similar sites for Facebook, IG, Reddit, etc.? I'm interested mainly in seeing the rough number of users in my city of various social media sites for historical archiving. So far all I could find are basic stats like the total number of x or y platform users. A breakdown by city/state/province would be amazing. Source: about 2 years ago

Go to https://map.snapchat.com/ and zoom in on your area of interest. Source: about 2 years ago

SS: their leaders have been fairly laid back. Compared to fascist NZ, Austria, Austraila, Canada and even some large major cities in the US. But via https://map.snapchat.com/ and 4k walking videos. I noticed they have the highest mask compliance of anywhere in the world. Source: over 2 years ago

The only private alternatives are going to be self hosted and will require some technical skill. See owntracks for details. Source: 12 months ago

On your side, you need some way to be tracked. Easy solution is an app on your phone, I like OwnTracks as a privacy-respecting option. Source: about 1 year ago

Sounds like owntracks with a android headunit https://owntracks.org/. Source: about 1 year ago

OwnTracks is app people can install on their phones that you can setup to send live gps coordinates back to your web server. Source: about 1 year ago

One container where this would have been an issue for me is OwnTracks recorder. Probably could have got it working on ARM if I wanted to compile the program then create a container around it, but didn't want to spend the time and instead just used the free tier x86_64 VM. Source: over 1 year ago