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I've open sourced my location

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Is "open sourced" the best wording here?

The author has publicly published his location. This has little to do with the regular use of the open source term.

You can do whatever you want to do with my location as it's available for public, you can use it any where in your demo, example etc. That's why I told, I opensourced location.

but You can suggest a good word :) I won't mind to change it.

"Publicised". There's no source going on here, unless you've open sourced the tracking software, but that still wouldn't be your location.

That thing made on Firebase, Node and hosted on Github. Its already opensource. Check out https://github.com/neelkadia/neelkadia.github.io/blob/master...

What do you understand when I say "open source"?

fine, the software is open source, but there is no "source code" to your location. I'm saying that the best wording is "I publicized my location", not "I open sourced my location". It looks to me like you are just trying to take advantage of the "open source is best" leanings many on HN seem to have.

"[…] can you see 72 satellites? No? But they can see you and know where are you."

How do they do it? I was under impression that GPS (or GLONASS/Galileo) satellites are basically just flying atomic clocks, and even Iridium (which is probably what the author means by "72 satellites") can't track people.

I am in impression that all private GPS provider can track me if they want to do, using my cell phone, house number, from above.

There were already so many incidents happened and came in picture on GPS tracking misused. You can google it. I personally believe they can track you when they want to track you.

Interesting idea. There is a typo in the first question - 'intresting'.

fixed! Thanks!

Would be interesting to see your digital location as well. ;)

I didn't get you

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