Alert My Location

Have you ever been in a situation where you sense that you are in trouble and you want to make someone else aware of where you are and alert them as a precautionary measure?

Going on a road trip and have to keep your family updated about your location? But wait, can you update all family members at a single button click?

Walking down a road and someone following you?

Too late in the night and going through a scary neighborhood?

Only one in a public transport with six other drunk people?




This application automatically sends out your location using SMS and Email to your emergency contacts.
Major features are -

. Location(GPS co-ordinates) are sent through SMS and Email both.
. Gps co-ordinates are embedded inside "Google Maps link" for faster access for your emergency contacts.
. Widget is provided for sending location at a single touch on homescreen
. Not only can it help you feel comfortable in the above situations but also save a life in a real emergency situation like a super-storm, burglary, kidnapping, shootout or rape.

Instructions

- When you first launch the app, go to the "Add Contacts" screen and select the emergency contacts you may want to alert from the phone's address book along with the phone number or email address that you would like your location to be sent on.
- In an emergency situation press the "Share Location" Button from home screen
The SMS/emails gets sent immediately to your selected contacts.



Features

- Built to be extremely simple and reliable
- Realtime location detection
- Reverse geocoded address lookup
- Supports all phones and all screen sizes

Note that we do not collect/store any user information at all

Note - This may incur you additional SMS charges. Feel free to comment and please rate.

Developers - Mitali Bhokare, Sumit Kaulkar and Anand Khinvasara