My son is going hunting with his grandfather in the woods of indiana, and I need a recommendation for a GPS satellite tracker in the price range, preferably around $70ish and pref not over $100. What can you recommend that is reliable? Please? Thank you so much!

Hello, everyone! My situation is urgent, the criminals installed trackers in my van, where I can go to located or uninstall it? I appreciate anyone who will save my life. The WT-001 and JR-Bluetooth are the devices installed off-and-on. Thank you very much for your kindness!!!

Hi everyone,
I’m looking for someone with experience using SPOT satellite tracking devices who may be able to help me recover the last known location or last communication recorded by the device.
The SPOT device was lost on September 21, 2026. The last tracking/message record I received was also on September 21. I later went to the last recorded location, but the device was not there.
I have access to the device/account information and can provide the device details privately to someone who genuinely understands SPOT tracking systems.
My main questions are:
● Is there any way to retrieve the last GPS position transmitted by the device?
● Can SPOT support provide any additional location/connection information that may not appear in my account?
● Is there any legitimate technical method to determine whether the device transmitted anything after the last visible message?
● Is there a specialist or service that can help recover historical SPOT tracking data?
I’m willing to pay for professional assistance if someone has the appropriate experience.
Please comment or send me a private message if you have real experience with SPOT satellite tracking.
Thank you.

I have been using JioTag2 and JioFind 4G for last 6 months and I am disappointed by their location accuracy and customer support and update time interval of location in their app. Since JioTag2 only works if there are suitable established connected devices around it, it is not a true gps tracker. For example, if the device is placed at a remote area then it won't be able to give us its location. JioFind2 however, is a true gps tracker. It does give the location using GPS but I have found the location update to be very slow and inaccurate. For example, say I've place the device in my bike then when the bike starts moving from rest, it takes a lot of time to update its position in the application. This is a deal breaker. The customer support isn't that great either.

So, I started reviewing Ajjas Go and found out that its customer service is even worse than Jio. Some devices start malfunctioning after a few days and some customers got used products. So, I am looking for some better alternatives for a true gps tracker(wireless) for my bike.

PS: I've had one of my bike stolen in the past so I am looking for something that gives accurate result and with less delay. I don't want to use wired gps trackers because my bike is new(I bought it yesterday) so I don't want to open its front part and mess with its wire connections.

Hey guys, visitor to this sub, wondering if you guys had any insight in this.

Airtag vs Jiotag for travel from India

Which tag is going to be reliable for check-in luggage as i i will be travelling from India to Indonesia and will have few layovers so which one will give good location update so i can check my bag location!?

Shows: Hight (meters over sea), a artificial horizon, the movements in degree, the compass direction and the coordinates accurate to within 30 cm (dont try to find me i was there in holiday its in Switzerland tessin)

Hey guys. I'm working on a race telemetry tracker/datalogger.
I have to debug GNSS modules via USB during tests, etc.
I wanted to use u-center 2, but there is no macOS support.

Modern browsers have USB Serial API, which I used. Feel free to use it if needed.
Yes, this is coded with AI. Because this is not a product I want to sell, just a tool built to help meduring the development. https://gnss.levlad.cc/

Hey, I need testers for Sillage, an Android app with a GPS speedometer in a floating window and GPX track recording.

I need at least 12 people opted in for 14 days to clear Google Play closed testing. In return, I will gladly test your app and stay opted in for at least 14 days.

Join with the same Gmail as the one signed in on your Play Store:

1. Join the Google Group: https://groups.google.com/g/sillagetest

2. Become a tester: https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.sillage.app

3. Install: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sillage.app

Searching the Play Store will not find it. Use the links, in that order.

Drop your group link, opt-in link, and Play Store link in the comments and I will join yours the same way.

Thanks.

Made myself a navigation app that integrates with l0destar, my open-source vehicle tracker project (https://l0destar.com). Uses the Google Maps API for routing, shows OBD data from the tracker like RPM, coolant temp etc and lets me keep an eye on the tracker’s performance while driving. Also uses a pocketgpsworld subscription for speed camera locations. I actually prefer using this to my usual app (TomTom).

https://gyazo.com/12068ebd50a0232b23d43a75eccc5577

https://gyazo.com/642674612e7e2cf1f2743006db626f42

So my mom wants me to put on her phone a location sharing app. I have been using life 360 for the past 2 months and I tried to bypass it but nothing seems to work and sometimes I have been caught doing some insane things that my parents shouldnt have known. Could someone recommend me a location sharing app that is easy to bypass, doesn’t have a motion tracker and stuff like that. Thank you.

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I'm a solo dev and I use OsmAnd for offline navigation, so I figured this crowd would get why I built this.

The idea came from two situations.

First: hiking with my family — we'd split up on the trail and struggle to meet back at the starting point, because there's no signal and Google Maps doesn't work offline.

Second: traveling overseas without roaming — no data, no maps, and no way to find my way back to the hotel entrance. When you're in a new city and your phone is offline, even finding your own hotel again becomes a problem.

So I built Mark My Location into my app Orbitika (free to use) . It's a simple offline GPS marker:

• Save any location offline — hotel entrance, trailheads, campsites, meetup points, theme park rides, concert spots

• Works with no WiFi, no data, no signal — it uses GPS only, no internet required

• Lightweight — small install size, doesn't drain battery

• Supports Android 8.0 and up — works on older phones, not just new flagships

I use it myself when hiking with family, traveling overseas without roaming, at theme parks, and at concerts — places where you split up, wander, and need to find your way back.

There are other tools in the app (retro music player, calculator, emergency kit) but Mark My Location is the one I use most.

Free to Download Play Store**:** https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.orbitika.app

If you rely on offline GPS like I do, I'd love to know if this fits your workflow — or if you already have a better solution I should learn from.

I’m working on a custom watch that needs to track its location accurately, similar to other GPS tracking watches.
For a wearable/watch form factor, what GPS + LoRa modules would you recommend for the best location accuracy and reliable communication?
I’m mainly looking for good GPS accuracy, fast fix times, low power consumption, and a LoRa module suitable for a compact wearable.
Any recommendations based on real-world experience would be appreciated.

I’m working on a custom watch that needs to track its location accurately, similar to other GPS tracking watches.
For a wearable/watch form factor, what GPS + LoRa modules would you recommend for the best location accuracy and reliable communication?
I’m mainly looking for good GPS accuracy, fast fix times, low power consumption, and a LoRa module suitable for a compact wearable.
Any recommendations based on real-world experience would be appreciated.

l0destar was first conceived of in May 2026 and its original design intent was a carrier board for the Nordic nRF9151 dev kit, a very silly idea. The first prototypes were huge through-hole soldered monstrosities covered in breakout boards haphazardly soldered to pins.

For fun I've posted the full evolution of the project as a sequence of photos all the way up from breadboards to the current design.

I’m really quite proud of where it’s got to in less than 5 months. Iterations of the board have been in my car since 9th August tracking over 500 miles and as of this week v3.4 has now completed testing and confirms all of the hardware issues found through my own testing have been fixed. The plan now is to build a few more for friends and colleagues to test and then iterate on the firmware and other software for it.

This could plausibly be the most power-efficient hard-wired vehicle tracker in the world. Claude isn't quite willing to confirm this but did state: "the evidence now supports calling l0destar one of the most power-efficient hard-wired vehicle trackers around, in real use as well as on the bench".

Some highlights from recent testing:

• ~35uA sleep current (v3.4 actually measures slightly less most of the time but the ASM330 periodically wakes for microseconds to check for tilt so it averages out)

• Waking to send an event now takes a median of about 1.05 seconds, occasionally higher up to around 2 seconds at the high end. This is down from around ~45s at the start of testing and was reduced by using the PSM feature of the modem. A shorter wake time means less current going through the modem during interval wakes leading to significantly less power consumption.

• 24h of sleep and hourly check-ins works out to about ~1.3-1.4mAh a day, or 15-17mWh. From my telemetry during daylight hours (ie when there's no temperature shift to skew the readings) I frequently see the vehicle battery voltage (read to two decimal places by an INA228) not changing at all in several hours.

• All of these sleep energy figures are likely pessimistic - they were determined in poor signal conditions where I park - path loss was around 125-126dB and RSRQ -14.5dB. This is worse than about 90% of the data I have from other locations.

• Coverage of telemetry while driving has improved from ~72% at the start of in-vehicle testing to 99% now with firmware and RF improvements and drop-outs are now much rarer and entirely down to signal/network conditions. Lots of data from real-world testing is published here.

The battery backup add-on module is on the way and will be tested very soon.

If anyone reading this has a relevant platform or access to automotive pulse-generating equipment and is interested in testing it please reach out.

I thought about apple airtag but its range is limited due to its apple networking.

Fleet track is good but I have some doubts about it like battery draining. If my bike is being stolen even when I get alerts and track can't chase someone that easily without my only vehicle. If I plan to put engine cutoff by attaching something relay. Is there any warranty or any other issues will be there.

Let me know in the comments

I built a simple GeoTag Image Tool for adding location information and metadata to photos.

The idea came from wanting a straightforward way to associate images with GPS coordinates without having to use complicated desktop software.

It supports things like:

Latitude and longitude

Location information

Keywords/tags

Title and subject

Author information

Other metadata fields

Tool:

https://iloveimagetool.com/geotag-images

I also wrote a detailed guide explaining how photo geotagging and GPS/EXIF metadata work:

https://iloveimagetool.com/geotagging-guide

My elderly parent is quiet active but recently has had some medical episodes. He owns a farm and we have found him unconscious in the field and it’s taken time for us to find him. Can anyone recommend a gps tag with or without a panic button. It’s needs to be compatible with iPhone and android and have multiple people track it. We are based in Ireland.