Google Adds Location History and Location Alerts to Google Latitude
November 11, 2009 12:25 PM | Google | Comments (0)
| Google has added Location History for Latitude allowing you (but not your friends) to see where you've been at any point in time. Additionally, now you can be notified, via Location Alerts, when you're near your Latitude friends so you can easily meet up or grab lunch. Google Location History: Google Location History will store, view, and manage your past Latitude locations. You can visualize your history on Google Maps and Earth or play back a recent trip in order. You can always delete selected history or your entire location history at any time. Google Location Alerts (beta): Using your past location history, Location Alerts can recognize your regular, routine locations and not create alerts when you're at places like home or work. |  |
Alerts will only be sent to you and any nearby friends when you're either at an unusual place or at a routine place at an unusual time. Keep in mind that it may take up to a week to learn your "unusual" locations and start sending alerts.
To enable these features, go to google.com/latitude/apps. You must first be an existing Google Latitude user; if you're not already, sign up here. You must explicitly enable each feature, and of course, you can disable it at any time.
Screen Shots of Google Location History
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