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Having a target with LockOnMe enables you to define Points Of Interest (POIs), which will be grouped under this reference object.
POIs could mark the best spots around town, the waypoints of a running track, the places you want to visit on your dream holiday tour, the location of your commercial space or office for your company's website, etc.

Those POIs can later be displayed on a web map (at lockon.me), as well as on the mobile app (...)

The combination of global positioning technology and the internet made (real-time) location planning and sharing possible, which in turn gave way to a large set of use cases.

For instance, groups of people or individuals on their own can drop Points of Interest (POIs) on a digital map during the preparation phase of an event (camp site, rally point...), or on the fly in the heat of the action (danger spot, things not to miss...). In the field, they would (...)

This page is intended to serve as a quick reference guide on how to use LockOnMe for the purpose of helping to coordinate people and activities in the context of an emergency.

LockOnMe is a general-purpose location sharing and tracking multi-platform application, with the ability to display both static and live positions on maps and radar screens.
The application can be used FOC.

When internet access is available (...)

Got particular spots in mind which you wish to share with everyone, like a city's secret gems to explore, or the wonders of a country?

First, create a target by choosing a Target ID and a Tracking Code (such as World / MountainPeaks), and add Points Of Interest (POIs) to it.
POIs can have a special icon showing on the map (see the related blog post), a note and link to an image URL.
Then when you're done, submit your target for quick review (...)

The Marine Radar display of the LockOnMe Android | Wear OS apps provides users with the ability to monitor targets relative to their own position.

Thanks to its polyvalent role as a dashboard that combines user-centric as well as target-related information, the operator may choose it as the interface of choice for situational awareness.

The Marine Radar may be used in a specific capacity as part of (...)

LockOnMe is now available on Wear OS!

After successfully passing the Wear OS quality checks (meeting the somehow stringent set of app quality criteria), it effectively became qualified as a Wear OS app and is now discoverable on Google Play.

Mixing the useful with the fun, the app will equip your smartwatch with a handy and engaging location-sharing toolkit – tracking targets' positions (...)

With the new release of LockOnMe, you can enjoy a fresh assortment of HD icons for your Points Of Interest (POIs).
From the boring ones(who needs sleeping anyway?...), to the exciting or intriguing if not downright bizarre ones (I mean...??)  —  these icons are designed to mark the location of your POIson maps (...)

• What's the position?
• Er, can't lock in... Multiple signals, they're closing!
• I got signals! I got readings in front and behind!
• Where, man? I don't see shit!
• He's right, there's nothing back here.
• Look, I'm telling you, there's something moving and IT AIN'T US! »

Snappy reporter: So what's LockOnMe?
Thrilled developer: One of the coolest apps around!

Hmm, sure... but what does it do?
Well, it's a location-sharing app; it displays the positions of targets and/or associated Points Of Interest (or "POIs" ), either relative to you, like on a radar, or on a map, like on a map...

Targets?   What's going on? (...)