You can integrate OwnTracks with NextCloud. OwnCloud app sends data to your NextCloud instance and you can see location of friends.
This ones a little more challenging to setup, be aware you need to selfhost with a public address. Or personal VPN to your home with Tailscale or Wireguard.
HomeAssistant, it has a “companion app” for android and ios. Once the app is installed on everyone’s phone you can see real time the device location.
More info on history and path tracking as well.
https://community.home-assistant.io/t/location-sharing-and-record-the-track/747789/3
Depending on your selfhosting skills you can either choose to put your homeassistant behind your own website, or you can use the integrated cloud service provided by NabuCasa for a small monthly fee.
1 million or free healthcare. You can only choose one.
Cars need lots of space. Streets and roads need to be wide, and parking lots are needed when cars are not in use.
These factors push everything far apart. If you think of North American shopping plazas in suburban areas, they are generally large empty spaces with parking lots between stores.
If you want to cross the street or road to the Walmart or HomeDepot in the plazza accross the one you are in, you generally need to drive or walk 20 min or more, and you need to walk to a main intersection with pedestrians signals, good luck trying to cross 4-6 lanes of suburban traffic with shopping bags.
Let alone, local transit stops are located outside the plaza’s at a major intersection generally with a 15min walk to the store entrance.
The urban planning is extremely inefficient and poor.
Agreed theft is always a issue, there are ways to try and mitigate it. Proper storage, dedicated parking, lighting, cameras or security. Not all all 100% full proof though, not going to lie. Cars even get broken into when all these above listed items are in place.
Side note, I know in Europe it’s common to have a secondary “beater bike” in the city, you ride your bike to the train in your local town, then grab your beater in the city train station.
Could not be more correct. Public spaces and transit, cities need to be for the people that live there. Not for suburban commuters
Government monitoring individuals that point out negative aspects or their societies/countries
Quillpad might be of interest.
It also syncs with nextcloud