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Phone tracking

I think you are asking how you track other phones (apologies if you meant something else). In which case the answer is that you ask the other person if they are willing to share their location with you. If they are there are several legitimate apps to do that.

Tracking someone without their consent is illegal in most countries, as well as unethical, so nobody is going to assist you with that. But I will tell you that Tasker can't do it.

If you just want your own location history then there are many apps for that. And likewise if you want to share your location with someone else. So in those cases please just explain more clearly what it is you want.
 
The following will display a GPS location from the current device using either GPS or WiFi.

Code: 
Sample
A1: Get Location [ Source:Any Timeout (Seconds):100 Continue Task Immediately:On Keep Tracking:Off ]
A2: Variable Set [ Name:%work To:%LOC Recurse Variables:Off Do Maths:Off Append:Off ]
A3: Variable Split [ Name:%work Splitter:, Delete Base:Off ]
A4: Popup [ Title: Text:Current GPS Location
Lat:  %work1
Lon:  %work2 Background Image: Layout:popup Timeout (Seconds):16 Show Over Keyguard:On ]

The problem is that if the location can not be obtained in the time permitted by the Get Location action then %LOC will contain the previously obtained location. There s no way to clear %LOC.

If you are trying to get the location of another device then the owner of that device needs to install an app that will get the location and transmit it to you. I use Cerberus to track all my devices and it has an app installed on each of them....
Cerberus (Android) enable capability on device
Cerberus (Website) control device from website

… Thom
 
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