Mobile Tracking Application for LocatingFriends using LBS

In today’s fast moving life services based on location has very much importance in everyone’s life. As the trend is of smartphones, mobiles, iPhones, and all the gadget emerging today it’s very important for the mobile user to have the location based services. Location based service can be elaborate as the services which uses the users geographical location which consist of X and Y coordinates, which is generated by GPS which acts as positioning device. This paper called mobile tracking application for locating friends using LBS, which uses the GPS as location provider through geographic location for mobile network. Nowadays security of woman’s is at the stake in our country this application includes anti-theft facility for the woman’s or the user which is using the app so that his location information is send the geographically nearest police station. This implements the client server system that helps the user to locate and track their friends, and receive the alert message when nearby, basing on radius set by administrator. Frontend application coding is done in J2ME and MYSQL database used to update the location information and track the location.