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Description:

Disposable Maps enables you to select contacts from your address book to share your location with them. Disposable Maps generates a unique URL, which displays your location in a private way, and notifies the location receivers via email. If you want to stop location sharing, you can dispose your location with one click.

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People often meet others for various purposes (e.g., business meeting, socialising, shopping) in different locations (e.g., office, restaurants, places, street corners). Usually one or more participants of the proposed meeting have to travel to the negotiated location. Travelling can lead to delays. Therefore it is a common practice that people renegotiate meeting arrangements or inform each other about being late by a phone call or text message.

Providing meeting participants with location-based information of each other can enhance the above-described process. The following scenario describes the proposed approach:

Peter and Ralph want to see a new movie at the Southbank cinemas in Brisbane. They both live in different suburbs and arranged to meet at the cinema 15 minutes before the movie. Peter arrives on time. Ralph, who has been caught up in traffic, starts the “Disposable Maps” application. He selects Ralph from his contact list for location sharing. Ralph receives a text message/email: “Hi Peter, Ralph want to share his location with you! Click Here to see where he is!” He clicks on the unique link and the phone’s web browser shows a map with Ralph’s up-to-date location coordinates. As Peter sees his location and thinks that Ralph will at least need 10 more minutes, he decides to buy the tickets and a few drinks so that they can enter the cinema straight away without further delays. After buying the tickets and drinks, Peter clicks on the link again and notices that Ralph is just around the corner. Both enter cinema on time and enjoy the movie.

Tester incentive:

other (more info)

Sorry guys...I'm a poor student.

However, if the application will be accepted by Apple at some point, the download will be free.

Supported devices:

iPhone (3G), iPhone (3GS)

Here's what needs to be tested:

Please test the application concerning usability and usefulness. Do you use such an application? Did the application crash?