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Title: Phone app used by mountain rescue to find walkers
Post by: Al Fresco on December 31, 2011

Mountain rescue teams are using a new phone app to help find lost walkers. The program called sarloc leds the team to the exact location of the user.
I have serched for this on Android and cant find it, anyone know if its on the iphone?

http://www.grough.co.uk/magazine/2011/12/31/rescuers-use-software-again-to-find-lost-walkers

Title: Re: Phone app used by mountain rescue to find walkers
Post by: RedLeader on December 31, 2011

Seems to be this:
http://www.mrmap.org.uk/

Title: Re: Phone app used by mountain rescue to find walkers
Post by: DryBag on January 03, 2012

SARLOC is so simple it's genius.

http://forum.mrmap.org.uk/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=288

it's not even an app.  it's a web page which queries the phone's location.  There's a good chance this could be made to work even if you're not using a full blown smartphone.