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Navpoint Desktop
This is a simple Python program that will run two HTTP servers. One listens on
the computer's local IP address (e.g. 192.168.x.x), port 8888, to receive
location updates from the Navpoint
Mobile
Android app. The other listens on 127.0.0.1 (i.e. localhost), also on port
8888, for connections from a digital globe program such as Google Earth
Pro, allowing that program to track the
user's location. (Navpoint is not developed or endorsed by Google.)
Navpoint Desktop has a minimal GUI consisting only of a QR code. Simply scan the code in Navpoint Mobile to establish a connection. The phone and computer must be on the same Wi-Fi network; if a router is not available, enabling mobile hotspot on the phone and connecting the computer to that network should work well. An Internet connection is not needed; Navpoint works over a LAN.
Navpoint Desktop makes the geographic data available in KML format at
http://127.0.0.1:8888/navpoint.kml. The navpoint_link.kml file in this
repository contains a link to this URL configured to update every three
seconds; simply open this file in Google Earth or another compatible program to
connect to Navpoint Desktop.
Licensing
Navpoint Desktop is released under the GNU General Public License
v3.0, except the files
navpoint/get_ip.py and navpoint/fix_path.py, which are released under
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0
International due to use of
code published on Stack Overflow
(get_ip.py and
fix_path.py).
Navpoint Mobile is released under the GNU General Public License v3.0.