Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!news.swapon.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Frank Slootweg Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android Subject: Re: How will the police find me. Date: 21 May 2024 15:33:59 GMT Organization: NOYB Lines: 30 Message-ID: References: <9r9l4j1dauquc3vrg6bghhp6cerpsq01a9@4ax.com> X-Trace: individual.net DUW4b2HDHUi0w0816GZ+MwTuxclrPUJkTtLoVkSKsvpbim69Kp X-Orig-Path: not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:fivMeJZYNHcMnV06fJqxjMrKn8w= sha256:opC0zzukAddphc3jj3bg6e6yr2bFvpOu8bq/VHIoiCM= User-Agent: tin/1.6.2-20030910 ("Pabbay") (UNIX) (CYGWIN_NT-10.0-WOW/2.8.0(0.309/5/3) (i686)) Hamster/2.0.2.2 Bytes: 2302 Bill Bradshaw wrote: > micky wrote: > > Going hiking tomorrow. Finally realized I was sending my location to > > my ex-GF, but I hadn't told her how to see it. Assuming the worst, > > that I break my leg and can't get off the trail, but the phone is > > broken or stolen, and assuming she actually notices it's 6PM and I > > still haven't texted her to say I'm done, she can see my phone's > > location using the simple instructions I found on the web. > > When I am out alone I always run a track on my GPS (not phone) which I can > follow back so I do not get lost because I am 78 years old. If you are > really worried you should look at something like a Garmin inReach. We also have an old (non-phone) GPS (Garmin), which can lay 'breadcrumbs' for backtracking. Got us out of a mess in outback Australia where there was a maze of non-signposted dirt tracks and our maps (paper and offline smartphone ones) failed us. Two-way (text/SMS) satellite communication like the Garmin InReach is of course better, but also more expensive, because of the monthly costs for the subscription. When we're in the boonies of Australia, we have a PLB (Personal Locator Beacon). That gives only a signal - not a message - and your location to the satellite, but doesn't need a costly subscription. -- Frank Slootweg, smartphone, maps, GPS, compass and PLB.