Location-based services

A method for controlling mobile devices, the method comprising:

• tracking, at a device associated with a user, mobile locations of one or more mobile devices associated with the user, the mobile locations based on server data received from a location server;
• displaying an interactive map via a User Interface (UI) on a device display of the device, the interactive map indicating mobile locations with respect to names of physical locations;
• displaying a control element, on the UI, for receiving a user selection to control a first mobile device of the one or more mobile devices;
• and
• communicating, based on receiving the user selection, with the location server to remotely control the first mobile device.

A non-transitory machine-readable medium having instructions stored thereon, the instructions executable to cause performance of operations comprising:

• tracking device locations of devices associated with a user, the device locations determined based on location data transmissions from the devices, the devices including a first device, the location data transmissions including first location data transmissions from the first device;
• communicating map data and control data to a user device, the map data for display on an interactive map of the user device, the map data for indicating on the interactive map location representations of the device locations and device representations of the devices, the control data for indicating a control element for performing a control action on a certain device of the devices;
• and
• in response to receiving an indication of a user selection of the control element, performing the control action.

A method for remotely controlling mobile devices, the method comprising:

• determining mobile device locations, each of the mobile device locations determined based on location data transmissions from a plurality of mobile devices;
• communicating with a first mobile device, of the plurality of mobile devices, to present an interactive map interface for display on the first mobile device, the interactive map interface for indicating names of physical locations and the plurality of mobile devices, the interactive map interface further for indicating a plurality of pictures, each of the plurality of pictures associated with a respective one of the physical locations or a respective one of the plurality of mobile devices;
• accessing location transmissions from the plurality of mobile devices;
• and
• in response to a determination, based on the accessing, that a physical location of one or more of the plurality of mobile devices has been determined, presenting, on the display of the first mobile device, one or more user selectable options to control the one or more of the plurality of mobile devices remotely.