Want support in using smartphone gps for search and rescue

Hi:

I'm aspect of the workgroup building GIS and engineering for search and rescue (SAR). More and more, calls for assistance are coming from individuals with Smart Phones of different models. While you individuals know, many of these phones are GPS capable. Having the coordinates of the man or woman in trouble can be a massive support to the people responding, especially in remote terrain. However, it often happens that neither the man or woman utilizing the mobile phone nor the responder (e.g. dispatcher, police agency or SAR group) understands ample to determine how to get the coordinates from your cellphone.

SAR teams during the UK have already been capable to successfully speak lost folks into downloading an app for their telephone and then owning them run it and examine the coordinates:

(hmmm. I am not allowed to publish URL. But Google:
BBC News - Brecon Mountain Rescue attain walkers with smart phone app)

A different group in the UK has developed some sort of web site the place lost people can enter the URL along with the app reads the coordinates from the cell phone:

Google:]Mountain Rescue Teams harness iPhone app (SARLOC) to assist find lost hillwalkers

I'm quite clueless about Android Smart Phones and will need someone to create up a summary of how you can go about the former (downloading an app) or, additional credit score, developing the latter (a web site which reads the coordinates on the cellphone). We have acquired a workshop and safety presentation coming up in a month at Grand Canyon and it would be great if we could distribute a 'how to' for your major different types of phones to choose from.

A little something along the lines of a simple to read set of queries for that dispatcher to find out the sort of telephone, then a url to go to get an app; then the way to study the coordinates.