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<h2>Roadmap</h2>
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FoxtrotGPS intends to be an open platform that fosters
innovation in the community of users and developers, and
everyone is invited to contribute to help guide its growth.
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The initial set of goals, toward which our main focus is
currently directed, revolves around resolving issues in the
current codebase, and is as follows:
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Replace the proprietary `friends' and IM subsystems with
open, standards-based systems.
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The location-sharing and messaging features inherited from
tangoGPS relies on a proprietary web-service.
To the best of our knowledge, the code
that drives the service has never been publicly released and
there is no public specification for the service interface.
<em>Theoretically</em>, underspecification and exclusivity
of service-ownership and -operation could also raise
concerns regarding privacy, security, and reliability.
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Location-sharing options currently appear to be:
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Using the friends functionality of <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/">OpenStreetMap</a>.
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<a href="https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0080.html">XEP-0080</a>,
the location-sharing extension to
<a href="https://www.jabber.org/">XMPP</a>,
which has at least preliminary support in
<a href="https://telepathy.freedesktop.org/wiki/Gabble%20XEP">
Telepathy via Gabble</a>.
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One of the side-effects to expect from opening these
subsystems is that the support for `moving targets' would
become generalised to the point where tracking different
types of `targets' beyond just people would be possible
(examples include things like storms, emergency vehicles...).
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If you can help with these issues, or if you have another issue
that you believe requires attention, please bring it to our
attention on the <a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS-GPS">foss-gps
e-mail list</a>.
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