John Peattie was worried that some of his friends would be late for a 7:30 p.m. movie so he turned to his cellphone to track their whereabouts.

With one click, the 22-year-old chemical engineer pulled up an electronic map of the San Francisco area with his friends’ locations pinpointed. From the map, he could tell that some were as much as 45 minutes away. “We basically knew they weren’t going to make it,” he said.

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