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	ste-phan	2014-10-14 , 10:07
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Originally Posted by biketool

pichlo, this is precisely what I want, mainly to automagically place their location into a turn by turn mapping app so I can easily find and pick them up.
Most people, especially people visiting as tourists, can't accurately describe nearby landmarks or even read street signs, I would rather let their GPS enabled phone do the work for me.

While I am certain that Google and Apple already are doing this job for you, the question is, how to access that data?

And suppose it just works: I pulled out several hairs trying to explain over and over how to "share location" via a Nokia "share location feature", to family members with known hardware / software.

People just couldn't imagine how , why and where this feature was supposed to be found and get it to work on the spot. GPS did not lock etc...

Ended up with traditional search and rescue.

Love the concept though, should not be so hard to program.

One multiplatform GPS app that sends GPS coordinates in standard SMS and can parse incoming SMS for coordinates data and put them on openstreet map with contact name or phone number, save as offline map with the hour date stamp before you hit the road.
No registration or corp server involved, thanks.

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