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32 pointsjonatanheyman13 comments

This is hilarious, i just made exactly this as a personal project very recently (only its super ugly, i did it in under 1 day)

http://ff.mouseofdoom.com/

I also uploaded the source to my git account if anyone wants to take a look: https://github.com/ndroo/friend-finder

It works good. Glympse is out there that is an advanced version of this, but I like this.

I would like it better if it ran in the background. I'm not sure on battery use either. Did you use something that saves battery or is it constantly sending my location? Also an iPhone app that worked in the background that was smoother would be awesome. If you want some help on dev or design I'd love to help!

Yeah, it constantly sends your position while you look at the page. I also wish it worked in the background, but unfortunately I don't think it's possible. It stops updating your position when you exit the browser app, or if you lock the phone (at least on iOS). I might do an app (that goes against the same backend) in the future!

There's also Twist

Really, really nice. Can't count the number of times I've wanted something exactly like this.

And beautful site and maps too.

Great job!

Thank you! Happy you like it :)!

With more gif: http://www.meattext.com/

What a beautiful map - what service are you using for that?

Looks like a service called CloudMade: http://cloudmade.com/products/map-tiles

Yep, map tiles are from CloudMade! Map lib is Leaflet. I also made a Leaflet plugin for the user markers, which is on github: https://github.com/heyman/leaflet-usermarker

aka

rob-my-house.net

Realistically, burglars prefer to rob houses where people aren't.

My guess is that very few burglars sit around scanning all of the (52 x 52 x 52 x 52 x 52 x 52) possibilities of Longitude.me directories (assuming they just use case sensitive letters), and then when they find one where there's a person (near them) THEN drive to that location and rob them.

If they're that hard pressed to rob a real-live person they could just go door-to-door until they found someone.

I can't back this up with research, however.

So you think that unless the location of a house has been posted on the internet, it is rendered invisible to all would-be burglars?

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