Google Latitude gets location history and smart alerts

11 November, 2009

Eight months after the Google Latitude launch it's now time for its first major update. Thanks to location history you can now keep track of the places you've been at and thanks to smart alerts you will get notified when one of your pals is around.

You can visualize your Latitude history on Google Maps and Google Earth. Naturally, deleting the whole history or parts of it is also possible.

The Google Location alerts add-on is still in beta so some bugs and instability is to be expected. The location alerts require you to enable Location History (so that it doesn’t constantly alert you when you roommate or coworkers come through the door). 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 for the system to learn your usual routes and favorite hang out places so it can alert you only when appropriate.

If you haven’t done it already you can sign up for Google Latitude over here. Then you can enable the new features by following this link.

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Anonymous
12 Nov 2009
Uij

hahahahah yea i was thinking that too, i was like Will Smith in behind enemy lines? i believe it was Owen Wilson and Gene hackman too

pranav95@hotmail.com
12 Nov 2009
2@r

This is the coolest application if you have like minded friends. It is also helpful at times. For e.g. recently my friend lost his phone when we were on vacation in Goa but since he had google maps app. running in the background, i could locate ...