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Good idea, Bad technology, Bad implementation. For this to add value it must me something totaly mobile. It has to be a small GPS app that user can have on their phone, that detects their proximity to one of these spot and send them a text message or gives them a call.

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Or what if you could tell it routes you normally take and at what times, and it will email or text message you if there is cop activity. Maybe you could just subscribe to a road or a location?

Even better: your phone will check for cops on your way, using GPS. When you locate a cop, you can report him in real time, and someone driving 200m behind you, using the same site, will get an alert.

Phones don't really have GPS though, right? And there's no easy way to write software that uses it even if it is there.

The phone network can locate your phone - so your phone can also know its location even without GPS. If your phone knows your location, and is connected to the web, it can work.

If you can tell me how to do this using only a website (no phone specific programming) it would dovetail nicely into a startup idea I'm considering.

I figured it would require getting users to install my software on their phone somehow, dealing with phone companies, and learning something called "Symbian".

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