Share gps app for android description: Share gps supports the following major activities use your mobile as an external gps for laptops tablets that don 39 t have gps.
Share and update location real time to a remote person using google earth or other kml compatible program save locations visited and share later with images and links with kml save tracks during activities such as driving biking and walking and share via kml filesshare nmea gps sentences or act as a gpsd compatible server via the following methods: bluetooth tcp ip (wifi mobile data) usbshare kml files via the following methods: dropbox google drive ssh scp local phone storage provider applicationshare gps is an application for real time location data sharing via a variety of methods.
It also supports saving tracks via kml kmz allowing the user to record footprints while the app is running in the background.
Share gps supports sending standard nmea data over bluetooth usb and tcp ip.
For local connections with a program like google earth your could turn your laptop into a big screen navigation device basically using your mobile as an external gps.
If you have a vpn setup you could also do remote sharing of location data via tcp ip over your 3g 4g or wifi connections.
If it turns out your mobile does not support nmea share gps has a setting for creating the nmea strings for you.
Share gps also supports sending location data via the kml file format compatible with google earth.
Kmz files can be shared via scp google drive dropbox local file or using another provider on the phone (email as an example).
It supports periodic sending and location updating of the file which would support many ing a cloud solution with a shared folder such as drive or dropbox several users could send kmz files periodically.
Then a pc user with google earth could set it up to periodically read the files for real time updating.
Mobile users could also access the kmz files as well with google earth or other applicati