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Google Latitude
Google Latitude™ user location service lets you and your friends share locations and status messages with
each other. It also lets you send instant messages and emails, make phone calls, and get directions to your
friends' locations.
Your location is not shared automatically. You must join Latitude, and then invite your friends to view your
location or accept their invitations.
Opening Latitude
To join Latitude:
While viewing a map in any mode, press
To open Latitude after joining:
While viewing a map in any mode, press
Sharing Your Locations
After you join Latitude, you can start sharing your locations with your friends. Only friends that you have
explicitly invited or accepted can see your location.
Inviting Friends
To share your location with friends and request to see their locations:
1.
In Latitude, press
2.
Choose how to add friends:
Select from Contacts
icon next to their names.
Add via email address
3.
Tap Add friends > OK .
If your friends already use Latitude, they receive an email request and a notification on Latitude. If they have
not yet joined Latitude, they receive an email request that tells them to sign in to Latitude with their Google
account.
Accepting an Invitation
When you get a sharing request from a friend, you can:
Accept and share back
. You can see your friends' locations, and they can see yours.
Accept, but hide my location
Don't accept
. No location information is shared between you and your friends.
You can change how your location is shared with each friend at any time. See "Inviting Friends" for details.
Showing Your Friends
You can show your friends using the map view or the list view.
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and then tap Add friends .
. Select any number of friends from People. Friends who already use Latitude have a
. Enter an email address.
. You can see your friends' locations, but they can't see yours.
and then tap Join Latitude .
and then tap Latitude .
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