Google Latitude has released a new feature; Location History. It now allows for detailed self-tracking. The mobile application lets you broadcast your location to your friends.
This new feature in Google Latitude records your location as you travel around whenever Google Latitude is turned on, and you can go back to see where you’ve been before.
It allows only you to see where you’ve been, but not your friends but allows you to see where your latitude friends are so you can meet up with them.
Google Location History
Whether you’re taking a road trip across the country, backpacking across Europe, or just going out for a night on the town, it’s fascinating to look back at where you went, and for how long you stayed. Enable Google Location History to 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. Of course, you can always delete selected history or your entire location history at any time. While working on Location History, I found myself going back in time to discover things that would have otherwise been impossible. For example, I stopped at an awesome BBQ place on my way back from Lake Tahoe this summer, but I couldn’t remember the name when my friend was asking about it a few months later. I pulled up my location history for that weekend, found where I was stationary on the drive home, and the restaurant name showed up in Google Maps: Drooling Dog Bar BQ. Check it out below:
I would love to test this out on my next road trip, and see where i have been and how long i was there. I’m sure in the future Google can also tell me what i might have been doing.
Meanwhile, please be sure to read all about the new features in Google Latitude here!
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