Greetings!
My wife, my 9 year old, and myself all have iPhones with me.com subscriptions. One of the "killer features" (at least for me) in the 3.0 firmware was the "find my iPhone" functionality. I would like to build some sort of tool that would poll the "find my iPhone" service every once in a while, and I could build some sort of database of all the places our 3 iPhones have been throughout the day. Does anyone have any ideas as to how such a service could be built easily?
Thanks!
It is unlikely that there is a public API for reading the location of any iPhone at any time as this would be a stalkers' dream.
If you have the me.com login credentials for all of the phones in your family, you could likely scrape the info off of a WebKit/IE control when it is showing the Find My iPhone page.
You might consider signing up for Google Latitude instead. That might provide a lot of the location functionality you're looking for without having to write anything yourself. www.google.com/latitude
You might want to check findmyiphone - that's a ruby script, or similar projects in php or java
Your best bet is probably figuring out how to scrape the mobileMe site, since it's really the only thing allowed to ask the phone where it is. You'd have to build an app that simulated a login and then parsed the results from the mobileMe site.
ATT has a family map feature. It costs $10 month to track up to 2 phones and I think $15 to track up to 5. I've tried it at it works pretty well. I thought it was a bit creepy too at first but you can only follow phone numbers tied to your account. Also once a number is being followed a text is sent to that number informing them and also a text is sent to the primary number on the account. att.com/familymap