Google Latitude On It's Way To Google Heaven - Discontinued 08-09-13

[caption id="attachment_3053" align="aligncenter" width="665"] Google Latitude to be retired on August 9[/caption]

Google Latitude is about to enter the Heavens...

I’ve used Google Latitude for about four years now and have found the application really useful. For those of you who don’t know, Latitude is an app that you install on your smart phone (it supports Android, Blackberry or iOS) and it keeps track of your location. You can then use this information how you wish. You can share it with friends or family, so that they know where you are in real time, or just use it to maintain a history of where you’ve been.

Google announced Wednesday that Latitude, its location-aware application that allows users to share where they are with others, will be retired on August 9. When that day rolls around, users will no longer be able to share their location and their friends list will be deleted. Third-party applications that use Latitude will also see that feature stop working.

The news was part of a broader announcement of a major update to Google Maps which includes a new Explore feature for finding places of interest around a location and support for tablets. In anticipation of its retirement, Google Latitude was left out of the Maps update.

• You’ll no longer be able to share your location using Latitude after August 9th.


• Latitude isn’t included as a feature in the latest version of Google Maps for mobile on Android. (Our iOS brethren will get the same treatment.)


• Your list of friends on Latitude will be deleted. You won’t be able to see or manage friends. Friends will no longer see your location in Google Maps for mobile on Android, Latitude for iPhone, the public badge, the iGoogle Gadget, and the Latitude website at maps.google.com/latitude.