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Somehow my FIL has managed to setup his phone to not only always share his location with me, but to also alert me anytime he starts a google maps navigation. I

Somehow my FIL has managed to setup his phone to not only always share his location with me, but to also alert me anytime he starts a google maps navigation. I get both a gmaps alert and an email each time. He is retired, so I mainly fishing trips, but next time I see him in person I need figure out how he set that up and to make sure he wants that 'feature' enabled.

modeless 6y ago
It automatically emails you every month to remind you who you are sharing your location with, so hopefully he's seen that. I didn't know you could set up notifications for navigation though. They used to have commute notifications but I thought those got removed.
- londons_explore 6y ago
  He might be manually sharing his route with you every time, perhaps because he thinks you might be interested where he's off to today...
  - dspillett 6y ago
    Or he is "filing a flight-plan" in case he has a trip and needs rescuing if you don't hear from him later. I know some fell runners who leave a copy of their route plans with a friend before heading out for similar "just-in-case" reasons, especially when going somewhere remote with particularly tricky terrain.
  - zaphirplane 6y ago
    Obviously preparing an alibi:)
renewiltord 6y ago
That second one sounds like it's manual. I've never been able to automate that. What would be cool if any time I pick a contact in Google Maps to navigate to, it would "share my progress" with them too.