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Compass
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aaronpk / Compass

Compass

Compass is a GPS tracking server that stores data in flat files.

3Distinct people
3Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
143GitHub stars
REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

What to know before exploring

What it is

Compass is a GPS tracking server that stores data in flat files.

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

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Also in these discussions

Mentioned in the same Hacker News threads. That is not proof they are substitutes.

This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 5:05:26 PM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by year3 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2021-09-18 13:36:12 UTC to 2024-11-20 20:06:52 UTC.

012021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20212022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2024

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110

What Hacker News says

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There is an open source iOS app called Overland[0] that can continuously track your location history in the background and upload the data to an arbitrary endpoint as GeoJSON. The "protocol" consists of a single HTTP request and response, so you can easily write your own server software to store the data however you want, which is what I did. If you don't want to write your own backend, you can also just use the server software[1] the author of the app uses, which is also open source. [0]: https://github.com/aaronpk/Overland-iOS [1]: https://github.com/aaronpk/Compass
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