Tribe

Tribe lets friends visually share their mobile locations, map markers, and chat.

Tribe lets friends share their locations with each other while on the go. It does so by making it possible for users to easily share their devices gps coordinates with select individuals.

In addition to visually sharing device locations, you can also create shared map markers or waypoints for the benefit of all your tribe members and securely message individuals or everyone in their tribe. All transmitted and received user data is encrypted while travelling via a secure socket.

Tribe lets you select from a variety of open source map styles tailored to various activities such as driving, cycling and hiking. Try an aerial view, or switch to something more specific like a cyclemap or a topographic map.

You can also have multiple accounts per device, each tied to the email address used during registration, so that you can use a specific account for a specific activity or group of people. For instance, you could have distinct accounts for your family tribe, your work tribe and your cycling tribe. This gives you more control over what data is shared between the users with whom you interact.

Use Cases:

Sports - cycling, hiking, running, boating, skiing

Meeting People at a Location - place a map marker on the meeting point and view each others progress towards it.

Travelling - see where everyone in your group is, mark places of interest and meeting points.

Keeping Track of Family Members - see where everyone is, drop a marker where you want to meet.

Keeping Track of Colleagues - see where your colleagues are, and share locations of interests.

Bicycle Commute Trains - see where your friends in the train are on the map and watch their progress.

Customer service - know where your customer is, let your customer know where you are, mark mutually relevant positions on the map.

Tourism - see where the tour starts, where the guide is, where the tourists are, and mark important tour locations on the map.

School Events - keep track of the class during field trips, sporting events, or anytime you're outside of the classroom. Learn about cartography, geographic coordinate systems, and geography.

Convoy Driving ("follow me to [some place]...") - don't worry about losing sight of the vehicle you are following because you can see their icon moving across the map, as well as the marked destination you are both enroute to.

Playing Tag :)

Playing Hide and Seek :)

More about data usage:

In order to respect the users privacy as much as possible while delivering the desired features, the app stores only the most recently received location from the device. There are no records of tracks or logs of locations visited. Similarly, message chains are trimmed to the most recently replied to text, so that there is no message history beyond the immediate text one is replying to. We don't share your email with anyone. Your email is used as a unique key to your Tribe account, for interacting with users of Tribe, and to let the user send messages.

If the user wishes to mark historical positions and save them, map markers can be easily added by tapping the screen. The markers will remain until someone in the tribe deletes them.

Explanation of subscription cost: Split between app developers, contributions to open source software projects, and the maintenance of operating costs incurred by this app.

Please note that this app requires an internet connection to function properly and, depending on your service provider and data plan, may cause service provider data transfer charges to be incurred.

Visit our website at http://tribe.posfoundations.com for more information, or email support@posfoundations.com