Patent ID: 8046004

Claim:
A mobile terminal having a communications function, comprising: a first terminal position information acquiring unit acquiring position information about a first terminal; a disclosure request reception unit receiving a disclosure request for the position information about the first terminal, the disclosure request being transmitted from a second terminal and including a requested disclosure level; a disclosure level determination unit determining the disclosure level of the position information about the first terminal that is acquired by the first terminal position information acquiring unit in accordance with the disclosure request received by the disclosure request reception unit; and an output unit comprising a map information storage unit in which map information is stored, the output unit outputting to the second terminal the position information about the first terminal based on the disclosure level determined by the disclosure level determination unit, wherein the first terminal is the mobile terminal itself, and the second terminal is another terminal that is capable of communicating with the mobile terminal, and the output unit outputs the position information about the first terminal based on the disclosure level determined by the disclosure level determination unit, the position information about the first terminal being outputted, based on the map information stored in the map information storage unit, in such a manner that location display map information about a location is displayed at the second terminal.