Google is retiring its Latitude location-sharing service on August 9th

Post by apa-sl » Wed, Jul 10, 2013, 4:45 PM UTC

digitalengineer wrote: post #45

apa-sl wrote: post #39

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We looked at this concept but results were not so good. But there is some visual effect after teleportation is completed. We will work on more that in further releases. For now we have to address some issuess and Android :-) P.S. My friend just tested all sharing options on his iPhone5 - worked fine. It must have been some random crash in your case. Nevertheless it will be visible in our statistics.

I added a sketch to my top comment.

Post by ewolf » Wed, Jul 10, 2013, 5:11 PM UTC

hahainternet wrote: post #29

ewolf wrote: post #27

I hope this will give rise to some replacement services; Latitude was actually pretty useful. I'm still wondering why they didn't implement "asking" for locations via push? That would save a lot of battery compared to updating in intervals and would be a lot more accurate.

Latitude is just being merged into G+. I can't see any features that are being killed.

Post by gioele » Wed, Jul 10, 2013, 5:17 PM UTC

Pxtl wrote: post #46

gioele wrote: post #18

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> Whether you use iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Blackberry, or any of the other competitors, you've likely experienced an app you'd love to install but it doesn't exist for your platform. Linux users are used to struggling with a developer to try to get a port when programs were made for Windows only. Try being a Linux user on a PowerPC box. I hope developers, most of which have become mobile developers by now, have n…

Other way around, more likely. Everybody's abandoning open protocols - Google has functionally dropped RSS and their instant messaging protocol, for example. The modern approach is to avoid the protocol and offer a massive cloud-based service, first-party apps, and maybe an API for a little while when you're in the growth state (kill the API when your apps have every feature you want them to have).

Post by snogglethorpe » Thu, Jul 11, 2013, 1:33 AM UTC

ElliotH wrote: post #56

snogglethorpe wrote: post #23

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> I was quite a fan of finding how far I'd walked, but Google Now tells me that once a month now. I compared the results of my phone's pedometer function (which seems to be quite accurate) to Google Now's walk reports, and the distances Google Now gave were wrong by an order of magnitude ... soooo, pretty much useless... > [I've no idea how Google Now tries to calculate this, but whatever method it uses seems to be a…

Oh, that's a pity - what app do you use to do that?

Post by skinnymuch » Sun, Jul 14, 2013, 4:32 PM UTC

laumars wrote: post #25

martingordon wrote: post #21

I use it to keep track of my own location and have been since the iPhone app was released way back when and I'm sad to see this go. It's been great to be able to relive my travels and is particularly useful when trying to geotag photos. Are there any location-tracking alternatives (I don't care about sharing it with friends) for iOS that offer KML/GPX export and are battery-friendly?

My friends and I use Glympse. (Android and iOS) edit: I've just noticed that Glympse has been recommended a few times in this thread already. I predict downloads for Glympse will sky-rocket over the coming days / weeks.