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Old 02-04-2009, 08:01 PM
JesterMania
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Originally Posted by kerrins View Post
It's a little disappointing that this works only for those with a data plan. Since Google Maps uses cell towers to locate someone, it would be nice if a non-data phone could be used. Specifically my children. I would like for their locations to be identified via a cell tower triangulation and then I could either go to my web enabled phone or a regular PC and locate them through the web interface. I completely agree that the installation of the application would need to be direct onto their phone so that I couldn't pick phone numbers at random and spy on them, but I would like to be able to keep track of my kids.
Something like that wouldn't really work at the moment as you would still need a way to upload the GPS coordinates from your kids' phones somewhere to make it available for you to see. Unfortunately at this time, costly data is the only option...
 
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