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Broadcast my Location

dja1980 said:
Yep, mine seems to be working. One thing I can't seem to figure out is why profile pics aren't showing up on my Droid map. They are showing up fine on my fiance's Droid, and also on both of our iGoogle accounts. Any thoughts?
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ditto, i cant get my profile pic to show up on either droid or igoogle

anyone know what we r doing wrong
 
I used gps status. I just send an email using gps status and my father-in-law gets an email with the google maps location.
 
Eugene said:
How often does that e-mail the location?
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If your talking about GPS status then it doesn't do an auto email. You do that yourself. Its nice since you dont have to worry about using your gps all the time.

Also I haven't figured out how to share google latitude with someone. It wants the other person to install it to their igoogle page and most people dont have an igoogle page.
 
Eugene said:
Settings, Location & Security settings, then uncheck use wireless networks.
Down side to that is you won't get any latitude updates unless you remember to turn gps on for a big, I just hit the maps for a little bit when i want mine to update. but I figured having to let it update is still better than the inaccurate locations I was getting from the cell towers.
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Since GPS automatically overrides aGPS when used, I leave both "Use wireless networks" and "Use GPS satellites" checked to have the best of both worlds.

This way, people can get a decent idea of where I'm at ALL the time, and when I want my location pinpointed, I just open the Maps app, and GPS locks me in.
 
Problem with using aGPS was it bounced me around from tower to tower so much it made it impossible to keep track of. Maybe its because there are a glut of towers near me but it just made so much noise it was useless. You can see the log I posted earlier, just sitting at my desk at work every 15 minutes I was bouncing around a couple miles.
 
You could try out the application "glympse" its free and you can send texts with a link to google maps and the location you sent the message at, i do believe
 
Eugene said:
Problem with using aGPS was it bounced me around from tower to tower so much it made it impossible to keep track of. Maybe its because there are a glut of towers near me but it just made so much noise it was useless. You can see the log I posted earlier, just sitting at my desk at work every 15 minutes I was bouncing around a couple miles.
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I agree. I had to explain this to family members who use this to keep track of me that I'm SOMEWHERE within the big circle... I'm not necessarily where my picture is. I tell them that when I'm displayed with a big circle, to zoom way out. This way, it doesn't appear that I'm moving around when I've just been sitting at my desk all day.
 
You would have to zoom really far out to the point where your showing the whole state in the view to keep it from moving around :)
 
i love this idea and wanted to share with the wife, so i installed lattitude on my droid and her BB 8330. then after it not working and some research, i found out verizon blocks the GPS chip in the curve and it can only be accessed by VZ navigator(for a monthly fee). there was a software update to allow the BB maps to work but no other 3rd party maps will work. just the man keeping us down again.
 
Eugene said:
You would have to zoom really far out to the point where your showing the whole state in the view to keep it from moving around :)
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Actually, I just noticed something while playing with my History page. It seems that some cell towers have more range than others.

When I'm at my office in the suburbs, the circle around me is about a 1/2 mile in diameter. According to my History page, there are 2 towers that I bounce between when I'm at the office. A 1/2 mile diameter is pretty small when zoomed out, so when I'm at the office, I don't appear to be moving around at all.

However, when I'm at home (an hour outside of the burbs), the tower diameters on the map are MUCH larger. Some of them display circles that are around 5 miles in diameter. That makes a huge difference, but can still be minimized when zoomed out.

Another thing I noticed from the History page is that I plugged my phone into the charger last night at around 10pm. From that point on, my circle was reduced from the huge 5 mile diameter circle that surrounds my neighborhood to a circle that's only 500 feet in diameter. It looks like it bounced between the 500 feet circle and a 2,000 feet diameter circle throughout the night, but the center point really didn't move much. Maybe it's just a coincidence, but is the broadcast location more accurate when the phone is plugged in?
 
This is the locations logged just for one day while I was at work. I work in the small area bordered by 750, CR RD 10, Lazelle, and Sancus, see there are 4 pins in that general area, its a big office building with 10,000 employees so it quite a lot of space. If aGPS would get that close I'd be happy. The pins like the on on the other side of 71 aroud polaris/orion, or the one on 23 the ones stacked on worthington-galina road are all around 1.5 miles be the scale that map was drawn in. Those make aGPS nearly useless since I was no where near any of those points that day.

If the ones at or past 71 and the ones over by 23 and worthington-galena were eliminated so the accuracy was better I'd be happier with aGPS. Imagine if I were at work one night late and no one else around and dialed 911 from my phone and it said I was on the other side of 71 like that. To give a little more perspective, inside that oval road inside those 4 streets is the parking lot and a building that is 1/2 mile long. then over to the left between polaris and gemini is another oval going around a parking lot and mall, the mall building s also a 1/2 mile walk from one end to the other. not to mention all the other office and retail buildings around, they would never find me. So when someone said you shouldn't turn off aGPS this is why, its info is worse than none at all
 

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Eugene said:
Every few minutes. Here's Monday Dec, 7th. I was sitting in my office all day.

10:16 AM Columbus, OH
10:26 AM Columbus, OH
10:36 AM Columbus, OH
10:45 AM Columbus, OH
11:14 AM S Old State Rd, Columbus, OH
11:23 AM Columbus, OH
11:52 AM Polaris Pkwy, Columbus, OH
12:02 PM Polaris Pkwy, Columbus, OH
12:32 PM N High St, Columbus, OH
12:41 PM Gemini Pkwy, Columbus, OH
1:24 PM Gemini Pkwy, Columbus, OH
1:33 PM Gemini Pkwy, Columbus, OH
1:43 PM N High St, Columbus, OH
1:53 PM Gemini Pkwy, Columbus, OH
2:03 PM Gemini Pkwy, Columbus, OH
3:39 PM Newmills Ln, Lewis Center, OH
3:49 PM Gemini Pkwy, Columbus, OH

Notice how it bounced all around even though I never left my desk, those were the towers it was locating to. Now I would assume if your in an area with less towers it may update less since it won't change towers as much. I was going to attach a screenshot but the attachment button doesn't seem towork
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just wondering were you went to get the history? is it accessible thru the computer or the phone or both?


disregard, found it :-)
 
google home page, my account, latitude, do more with your latitude location, google location history, then enable if not already, then view and manage history.
 
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