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+Backitude is an Android client that is designed to capture the location
+of your device at configurable time intervals or whenever a position is served
+up by the operating system.  You can grab it from https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=gaugler.backitude
+
+To configure Backitude to work with the custom server, you need to
+set the following parameters in the custom server settings:
+
+Server URL: http://<your server>/requests.php
+Request Type: POST
+Successful Response Codes: 200,201
+Authentication options: Credentials in POST parameters
+User Name: What ever you choose
+Password: What ever you choose
+Custom Field 1: upload
+Custom Field 2: backitude
+
+User Name: u
+Password: p
+Latitude: lat
+Longitude: long
+Accuracy: accuracy
+Speed: speed
+Altitude: alt
+Direction Bearing: angle
+Location Timestamp: <this can be deleted>
+Request Timestamp: do
+Timezone Offset: <this can be deleted>
+Custom Field 1: a
+Custom Field 2: db
+
+mysql needs to be configured by running the trackme.sql sql script file.
+
+config.php needs to be configured.  
+
+Within config.php:
+
+ - Use trackme as the database name.
+ - Initially set allow_registration = 1 so Backitude can register and your user/pass is automatically created
+
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