Why buy a Nextel phone? Nextel has terrible service coverage but their IDEN phone’s have GPS with an exposed API. They also have a reasonable deal on unlimited bandwidth. For these two reasons I overlooked Nextel’s faults and bought a Motorola IDEN i870. Two of my friends also own similar phones with GPS. My ultimate goal is to be able to track them at all times. They have gone long enough with the ability to walk around without me knowing their exact location. At any moment I may want to drive by them and throw a door knob at their knees. I can’t do that without knowing their exact location and that makes me upset. I wrote a small program which outputs their current GPS coordinates from their phones to a Google Earth kml file. This brings me one step closer to my ultimate goal of alienating all my friends. You can check out the project page: http://www.upl.cs.wisc.edu/~anthony/gps/