# Live GPS Location
**URL:** https://community.glideapps.com/t/live-gps-location/31404
**Category:** Ask for Help
**Created:** [September 5, 2021, 5:03pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/live-gps-location/31404 "2021-09-05T17:03:20Z")
**Posts on this page:** 17
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### Author:  [@Dan\_San](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Dan_San)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2021, 5:03pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/live-gps-location/31404/1 "2021-09-05T17:03:20Z")
I have a seen some older posts so not sure if there is any recent changes.
Is it possible to get a live location of phone for say like a couple of 2 hours (similar to whatsapp do). User case: a delivery driver dispatched and a customer wants to see their location. My actual use case is roadside assistance request by a driver who sends his/her GPS asking for help and when tow truck responds, the two truck shares his/her live location to keep the driver updated.
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### Author:  [@Jeff\_Hager](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jeff_Hager)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2021, 5:28pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/live-gps-location/31404/2 "2021-09-05T17:28:25Z")
There isn’t an option for live tracking and I doubt that will change anytime soon (for the personal security of anybody that could be tracked without proper knowledge…and every joe schmoe being able to build an app in minutes). People could get very malicious if they had the ability to track others. I think glide wants to be abundantly clear whenever a user’s current location is obtained. You can live track…as long as your users are actively using the app and continuously confirming and updating the location through the location component…but probably not what you want.
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### Author:  [@Dan\_San](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Dan_San)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2021, 7:01pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/live-gps-location/31404/3 "2021-09-05T19:01:01Z")
Thanks Jeff and understood, makes sense. Correct that will not give me what I want to achieve. The tow trucks do have a GPS tracker, I was trying to be lazy (efficient) and avoid doing API pull of location and push to Google sheets 🙂
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### Author:  [@SantiagoPerez](https://community.glideapps.com/u/SantiagoPerez)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2021, 7:34pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/live-gps-location/31404/4 "2021-09-05T19:34:03Z")
You might be able to use the Experimental Code column to do this. Probably have to use the Date and time of submission in order to have reload every 10 seconds.
Edit: I mean to use you API to the straight to glide as opposed to Gsheets.
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### Author:  [@Dan\_San](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Dan_San)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2021, 4:53am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/live-gps-location/31404/5 "2021-09-06T04:53:56Z")
Good suggestion… I’ll try it… although for my particular case… I only need a 60sec update but it will give me a chance to play with Exp Code…
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### Author:  [@phong\_tran](https://community.glideapps.com/u/phong_tran)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2021, 10:42am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/live-gps-location/31404/6 "2021-09-06T10:42:45Z")
> [@Jeff\_Hager](#):
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> ông có tùy chọn để theo dõi trực tiếp và tôi nghi ngờ điều đó sẽ sớm thay đổi (vì sự an toàn cá nhân của bất kỳ ai có thể bị theo dõi mà không có kiến thức thích hợp… và mọi joe schmoe đều có thể xây
You can create a map list, then get the nearest location, when user interacts it will get the nearest location
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### Author:  [@ThinhDinh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ThinhDinh)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2021, 11:40am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/live-gps-location/31404/7 "2021-09-06T11:40:58Z")
This is not the point of the post. Dan is asking for a way to get a live GPS location, not locations that are near to the signed-in user.
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### Author:  [@phong\_tran](https://community.glideapps.com/u/phong_tran)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2021, 11:41am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/live-gps-location/31404/8 "2021-09-06T11:41:43Z")
> [@ThinhDinh](#):
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> hông phải các vị trí gần người dùng đã đăng nhập.
This is a temporary solution
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### Author:  [@ThinhDinh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ThinhDinh)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2021, 11:43am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/live-gps-location/31404/9 "2021-09-06T11:43:44Z")
Your method can only show the signed-in user what pins are near to their current location.
What Dan asks for is a way for, let’s say, me - as a customer, to track your live location (assuming you are a driver). There’s no way to do that as of now.
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### Author:  [@phong\_tran](https://community.glideapps.com/u/phong_tran)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2021, 11:46am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/live-gps-location/31404/10 "2021-09-06T11:46:54Z")
> [@ThinhDinh](#):
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> (giả sử bạn là tài xế)
The location will be obtained when the driver last interacted. is also a way for you to see their location near you
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### Author:  [@phong\_tran](https://community.glideapps.com/u/phong_tran)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2021, 11:47am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/live-gps-location/31404/11 "2021-09-06T11:47:54Z")
> [@phong\_tran](#):
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> The location will be obtained when the driver last interacted. is also a way for you to see their location near you
Each interaction of the driver will be recorded, the nearest saved location is okay.
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### Author:  [@ThinhDinh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ThinhDinh)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2021, 12:54pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/live-gps-location/31404/12 "2021-09-06T12:54:23Z")
How do you record the current location on the driver’s interaction action?
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### Author:  [@phong\_tran](https://community.glideapps.com/u/phong_tran)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2021, 1:11pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/live-gps-location/31404/13 "2021-09-06T13:11:47Z")
> [@ThinhDinh](#):
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> i lại vị trí hiện tại trên hành động tương tác của tài
we can use “add row” or set colum
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### Author:  [@abdo](https://community.glideapps.com/u/abdo)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2023, 2:58am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/live-gps-location/31404/14 "2023-11-07T02:58:53Z")
has anyone worked on this recently. I am trying to track moving assets in an event. (such as a golf cart)
I don’t want the driver to update the location. any ideas?
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### Author:  [@ThinhDinh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ThinhDinh)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2023, 10:48pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/live-gps-location/31404/15 "2023-11-07T22:48:32Z")
Wouldn’t the location component help here? As long as the user doesn’t close the app, it might help, but I’m not entirely sure.
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### Author:  [@abdo](https://community.glideapps.com/u/abdo)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2023, 9:56am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/live-gps-location/31404/16 "2023-11-08T09:56:18Z")
Yes that would help, but the only possible user is the driver … and the location will continuously consume the updates (i’m not sure every how many seconds/minutes)
I’m wondering if I can track location using the driver phone… so lets say he scans the barcode on the asset (golf cart). and then gives me consent to track his phone location. then scans when he is finished & last location is saved.
or if there is any hardware that can be connected to the glide app to track the golf cart live movement.
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### Author:  [@ThinhDinh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ThinhDinh)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2023, 10:58pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/live-gps-location/31404/17 "2023-11-08T22:58:04Z")
Sorry, I don’t have more ideas to offer here. Hope someone else with relevant experience can chime in.