Phone location / tracking apps - which?

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Following on from the Crashed biker found in ditch alive three days later thread I wondered what was the best app for this?

From the biker thread...

[Kradmelder]

we use google latiude. It is free.

Several of my bike mates are on it so if riding alone they can see if you have a problem.

the only problem is that it only works if you are within cell reception and until the darkies come across you lying there and steal your wallet and phone.
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[The999Kid]

glympse me!

i use that, as does marmalade, as if marmalade uses it, its gotta be good
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[Kradmelder]

I had a bunch of friend applications to latitude today. There is an off road bike bash about 1000 km away but I'm not going. Have kids this weekend. So those going want to be on my latitude in case I have to go collect crashed or broken bikes lol!
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[anthony_r6]

[_Iain_]

"Find my freinds" came as part of an IOS 6 bundle. Use this on my 4s with no problems
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[janner_10]

As previously mentioned, Google Latitude, free and good!
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[daemonoid]

If you can convince the police someone is actually missing then it's trivial for them to inform the phone companies and get a reasonably accurate position for you (within a few hundred metres).

There are plenty of companies like this https://www.mobilelocate.co.uk/index.htm that offer locating services in the UK, I can't imagine all of them will follow the DPA to the letter either...
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[Marmalade]

[chris-red]

iPhones have this built in
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[daemonoid]

[goto10]

I've just put together a really cheap tracker, complete with Geofence alerts and real-time tracking - I used my old Android G1 phone, unlocked it and then got a data-only SIM from https://www.sambamobile.com/ for £5 (this is a one off cost with no monthly fee, you watch adverts to add extra bandwidth to your account - you can do this from any computer or on the device itself) - I then installed the freebie app from www.followmee.com/download.aspx - now I can set up virtual fences so it alerts me via Email if the bike is moved outside of the predefined zone(s) - or I can just login and look at where the bike is.
I bought a cheap 12v fused socket from eBay and installed it inside the storage box, even when closed it gets a pretty accurate GPS fix (falling back to cell location if it ends up in a building)
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[lydanial]

wheres my droid does gps locking and you can set it to stealth so good if you lose your phone...
send it a text to just find it on silent and it will ring and flash the light.
send a gps locater and it sends back 4 texts secretly, stating that it recieved message, longitude/latitude, map link and finally street address.

[boundy]

Android Lost is what I use on my phone, it can do some cool stuff if your phone gets nicked. You can make it display a system pop up that will take a pic with the front facing camera when the message is cleared

[WannaBeDude]

[Louise]

Glympse looks good -
Forever getting texts asking if I got to work ok ect
Will give it a try

[Taistelujaska]