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Sharing


This feature offers several ways of sharing your current location or other content in one place:

My location

My current location

The quickest way how to tell your friends where you are at the moment. Locus Map offers a selection of your favorite messaging apps through which you can send a short message with a URL showing your location on Locus Map Web:

My live location

With this, you can share your location continuously in real-time with anybody who has access to the internet. It shares a URL leading to a microsite where your location is displayed on a map and updated every 15 seconds. * if you like, insert a message for those who will track you, and then just tap the green START button.

The service can be used for free for 30 minutes. If you like it purchase Premium Gold and share your real-time location with your friends without limits.

Live tracking

With Locus Live tracking you share your actual location continuously in real-time mutually with all other Locus Map users or the whole world. You can share the location publicly or in closed groups.

More information about Live tracking setup >>

Map cursor location

These are means of sharing the location of the cursor on the map:

The quickest way how to send the location of any place marked by the cursor to your friends. Locus Map offers a selection of your favorite messaging apps through which you can send a URL address displaying the location on the map at web.locusmap.app.

Text message

Quick sharing

Offers fast share of just URLs:

This directly calls available messaging apps to send Google Maps or Geohash URLs without further editing.

Other map apps

Quickly share the map cursor location with all other map apps installed on your device, e.g. Google Maps, Waze, Sygic, etc.

What3words

Available only with Premium Gold

Sharing the map cursor location decoded in what3words system. Several languages are supported.

Main screen

Screenshot

A very simple method of sending the display screenshot to your friends. The feature captures a shot of the whole map screen with all displayed objects - points, tracks, etc. - without controlling buttons. Then Locus offers all available apps that can share the image.

All as KMZ

Creates a .kmz file with all visible map content for displaying in any .kml/kmz-supporting software (e.g. Google Earth)