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My Egypt trip including Abu Simbel, Aswan, Luxor, Cairo In early April I wrote of the need to utilize our mobile phone technology to address use cases ranging from personal navigation issues to large scale disaster response.  On the small scale, my personal scenario involved getting lost on a mountain top after sunset in Jordan (wanting to retrace my steps with my iPhone).  On the large scale, thousands of souls were lost on the coast of Tohoku, Japan when a tsunami struck in March, their loved ones not knowing where they were, even though many of them likely were carrying cell phones that could have been tracking their position, if there'd been an app for that. Subsequently, several crafty developers uncovered a location file that resides on iOS4 Apple phones.  Unfortunately, there aren't ways to access this data in real time from the personal perspective, or from a server backup from a broader perspective.  However, at the O'Reilly "Where 2.0 Conference", P...