The creator of a new Australian service that allows mobile phone users to locate their friends is already bracing for an angry reaction from concerned husbands. "It will create a bit of controversy over privacy and I don't know how many husbands will want to be tracked by their wives," he he.
A recently launched the service, called Mapmates, helps friends, family members and workmates to find one another on a map using the GPS navigation systems in their mobile phones.
Once two users have accepted one another as "mates", they can view each other's most recently updated location on the Mapmates website or through an application on their phone.
Similar mobile phone tracking services have been launched recently in the
Once set up, the Mapmates program sends your location co-ordinates to its web servers, and registered users you have allowed to see your details can access your location. Likewise, you can see their locations.
You can find your friends either by looking online, with their location pinpointed on Google Maps, or through a map image sent to your mobile phone. Users could choose how often Mapmates updates their location, to prevent the application draining a phone's battery, and could even specify when each nominated friend was able to view their location, but Mapmates could prove useful to a much wider audience. It’s more useful for the parents who say they want that to track their kids." The service could also prove useful in tracking lost or stolen mobile phones, as phone owners could simply log on to the Mapmates website to track a missing mobile's location. In perfect conditions Mapmates could track phones to within 1m of their location.
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