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• Latitude settings
: Displays the Location reporting screen where
you configure Background location reporting, view Location history,
and other Location information.
• Add friends
: Select from your Contacts or Add via email address.
• Check in
: Select your exact location from a pop-up list.
• Refresh friends
: Update available friends’ locations.
Sharing your Location with Friends
1.
From your Latitude screen, touch your location to display
options.
2.
Touch
Send location to others
.
– or –
3.
From the Maps screen, touch
to display your
Latitude friends. At first, only your name is displayed.
4.
Press
, then touch
Add friends
.
5.
Touch
Select from Contacts
or
Add via email address
.
6.
Touch a Contact or enter an email address, then touch
Add friends
.
7.
At the
Send sharing requests
prompt, touch
Yes
.
Your friend will receive an email or text message with your
location marked on a map. They will also receive instructions on
how to view your location from the web or use Latitude on their
phone or tablet provided it is available. Once they acknowledge
your request, their location will display on your phone. They can
share their location from their computer, phone, or tablet.
For more information, go to
http://www.google.com/latitude
.
Latitude Map Options
䊳
From the Maps screen, press
to display the following
options:
• Search
: Search for a place of interest.
• Directions
: Displays navigation directions to a location from a
starting point.
• My Places
: Shows you locations you have marked as favorites,
such as restaurants, museums, parks, and so on.
• Clear Map
: After viewing or following directions, this option resets
the map.
• Latitude
: Lets you and your friends share locations and status
messages with each other. It also lets you send instant messages
and emails and get directions to your friends’ locations.
• More
: Access the following additional options:
–
Labs
: A testing ground for experimental features that aren’t ready for
primetime. They may change, break or disappear at any time. Click on a
Lab to enable or disable it.
–
Cache Settings
: Choose whether to pre-fetch map tiles into memory
(speeds map navigation, especially when Wi-Fi is unavailable), and
whether to clear pre-fetched map tiles from cache memory.
