Beacon is a light-weight UDP-based protocol for sharing GPS fixes. It was designed to locate friends during bike rides.

This repository contains both the protocol definition and a server implementation.

This is work in progress.

You need:

• a C++23 compliant compiler (e.g. gcc or clang)
• PostgreSQL and PostGIS
• libfcgi
• libfmt
• nlohmann_json
• Meson 1.2 and Ninja

Optional:

• systemd

Run meson:

meson . output

Compile and install:

ninja -C output
ninja -C output install