Google Latitude now provides an embeddable public badge to help you broadcast your current physical location directly from your website to anyone in the world.
What has changed?
Earlier, you could only share your location with selected people who were your friends on Google Talk but with this public location badge, you are sharing your Latitude location with anyone who is on your web page so think before you enable this feature.
Also, this badge is only for displaying your location – you’ll still need a mobile phone with Google Latitude or iGoogle or Orkut to provide your location updates to Google.
Google Latitude data is also available as KML and JSON feeds so it’s only a matter of time before we see developers integrating this information into their own apps.
For an overview of Google Latitude and some location sharing tips, check out Location Tracking with Google Latitude.
Find this article at: http://www.labnol.org/internet/show-location-to-the-world/8430/
Tags: embed, feature, google latitude, location, Internet
Reader Comments
Amit, did you set your location manually? because here in the United States, Google always gives the same geolocation, Palo Alto, CA, for everyone, every time. It does not give a person’s true geolocation. Therefore, Google Latitude does not work as described. Please explain further if I am missing something. I signed up for Google Latitude, put it on my iGoogle page (I don’t have a SmartPhone), and it gave my location as Palo Alto, CA, even though I’m in Honolulu, Hawaii! Palo Alto is where almost all Google’s IP’s come from. They do not give your true IP.
Written by David Walker on 05.06.09