Re: Google Latitude - real-time friend finder

Wolfgang S. Rupprecht <wolfgang.rupprecht+gnus200902@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
dold@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:

I liked the AT&T Navigator's ability to "send location".

You can do that in glatitude too, but it is a bit more work. They let
you set the position manually (or automatically) and to turn updates
off. I like the idea of being able to push your position just once.
Maybe I'll put in a feature request for that.

I tried just "hiding my location", but that leaves my picture as a big blob
on my map. The tiny blue dot should be sufficient for my location.
Maybe a different color, or different _small_ icon when latitude is
enabled, but I don't need to see my own picture.

Logging out makes me log in again with full username and password if I want
to use it. I don't have to log in and out of GMail or GMM.

I did submit "feedback" in some generic place that will probably be
ignored. Make a "remember me" option. Let me copy-paste my location to
the BlackBerry clipboard so I can do whatever I want with it. And let me
use http://maps.google.com on my Blackberry if I don't want to download
GMM.

I was watching "Psych" on USA Network, and they showed a GPS tracker with
some real-looking coordinates. I was pretty sure that the coordinate
featured in the story would be legit, but the others on the screen looked
too far away to be legit in a track, so I thought I'd map them. My GMM
decided that it didn't like GPS coordinates of the form
34 02 21.47 N, 120 17 41.32 W
I tried several other variants of GPS coordinates, but none of them worked,
so I downloaded the new GMM, which requested a BlackBerry reboot. On
reboot there were several security violations, and now I had no internet
applications avaiable on the Blackberry. A second reboot cured that, but
no GMM. A new load of GMM checking the box for application permissions,
and everybody was happy, including looking for the Psych coordinates.

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Clarence A Dold - Hidden Valley Lake, CA, USA GPS: 38.8,-122.5
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