'Find it' tracker for travelling - for passports, or people and more?

I could do with trackers when travelling. What for? My phone of course. What we need as a travelling couple of relatives or friends is find each other's phones - and thus find each other.

What have I lost?
PASSPORT
My passport at American security.

I LOST MY HUSBAND
My husband - when he stopped to change his camera lens in the guided tour of the cellars at Rheims, France.

Missing TIMING
You can avoid missing lots of appointments by setting a timer on your phone or watch.

TAXI
In India I lost my taxi. I remembered my drive had a moustache and I noted the last two digits of the number plate. When I came out of the building, I found it has not one entrance but four. All the car parks had tai drivers who all had moustaches. The car number plates all ended with the same two digits which signified the city, and the fact that were taxi.

FLIGHT
Check the departure gate, even if you are with a group, especially if you are with a group.

My flight - the bossy group leader took all our tickets to the check-in desk. After a twenty minute wait I asked the girl on the desk when our flight was leaving for Washington DC. She told the flight was direct to London, not stopping at Washington DC.
Dinner with friends in Singapore on Saturday night. A relative knew our flight left London on Saturday. He forgot that we were on the overnight flight and would not be arriving at dinner time but breakfast next day.

1 My coat.
2 My passport
3 Items left behind in boxes as you go through security
4 My hat
5 My umbrella
6 My husband - especially at duty free in airports. Also in the lounges when he says, "If you are not back from the toilet in five minutes I am leaving for the gate. I can't afford to miss this flight. Where is he? Ahead of me? Gone to the Gents? Having a final coffee?
7 How about find my check in desk, or boarding gate?
8 Leaders of groups of schoolchildren and groups on guided tours.
9 Children. Those people who get on a plane with five children instead of their usual headcount of six.

10 What about find my waiter? They all look alike. They all wear glasses, or have moustaches, or black hair, or black tee-shirts.

Or find my cruise ship. Once, in the Bahamas, we left our big white cruise ship which was the only one docked, at dawn. When we came back in the evening, at dusk, we saw a line of about ten cruise ships!

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Other Websites
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The Smart City with green malls, driverless transport and offices on the move

Worldwide experiments are being made with driverless cars.Singapore already has driverless trains. .On the MRT stations you can see plans for the future. Get out at Farrer Park (not to be confused with Farrer Road) and above you is City Square Mall. It looks much like any other modern mall. However, you can read posters inside and out telling you how the building collects and recycles water and a host of other ideas, which were innovative at the time they were inaugurated.

ERP
Electronic Road pricing.
Definitely an improvement. You don't have to keep buying payment stickers. The money you owe is deducted from a card, with automatic time of day, day of week or seasonal increases and reductions made automatically, so no hunt for machines and change or shops open and stocking coupons and no fines for getting it wrong.

Singapore's seasonal decorations for Diwali on the underground train. In the UK in England and Wales special trains run with a character dressed as Santa on mainlines and special lines, particularly steam trains. But holograms could also be added on trains, perhaps sponsored in major cities by Madame Tussauds.

MRT station Downtown Line display of vision of the future by local schoolchildren.

An exhibition on the smart city of the future at one of the stations showed a phone kiosk turned into ta miniature office where you could sit down, type into a computer and print off a document. You would have to pay, like using a business centre in a hotel. But you could even do without an office if you were constantly travelling, and use an office briefly when needed, the way we used to use public phones on a pay as you go basis.

So many people want to do their homework on cafes, write their novel over a cup of coffee, or even have a business meeting in a pub or cafe, it's time that rooms or areas were set aside, perhaps business  booths, separate from others who might overhead.

Instead of restaurants banning phones, they might offer seating with phone plugs. We already have internet cafes, but they are basically internet, with a cup of coffee. Instead we could have something more like a miniature meeting room.

Cars and Vehicles

Rock stars have caravans kitted out like mobile homes combined with rehearsal rooms and offices. 

?Why aren't cars and taxis set up like offices on the move.

Conferences have press rooms with refreshments, even if it's only water or coffee, and desks with computers. Tables for meetings are set up for sales to be made behind booths. 

How do you expand your city? That depends on the terrain. Down to basements one and two with . underground walkways and malls sheltered from the weather. Up to skyscrapers with linkways from one to the next. Rooftop gardens. Greenery providing warmth or cooling, or soothing, or shade or even food. Parks or swimming pools in the sun with a view on rooftops. 

The latest planning departments in Singapore are specifically designing satellite cities, with inputs from adults and students and children and the disabled. For example, to see how long it takes a person in a wheelchair to cross from a busy road from a car park to a shopping mall.

All over the world, all sorts of ideas are emerging and being pooled. For example:

Shanty towns being painted in rainbow colours.

Water supplies.

Unemployed Mafia type gangs and hooligans stopped from destroying business by employing them or their wives and children to work in the business.

Author

Angela Lansbury, travel writer, author, speaker, trainer.