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Google Latitude is a (now discontinued) tool to track and share your location.

Google Latitude is a (now discontinued) tool to track your location and to share it with others. In addition to current location, it allows for queries of historical location. You can use the Google Latitude API to access and update locations programmatically.

Google Latitude was released in February 2009 and was officially discontinued in August 2013. Some of the functionality of Google Latitude was incorporated into Google+.

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How does Google calculate my location on a desktop?

Right this is confusing me quite a bit, i'm not sure if any of you have noticed or used the "my location" feature on google maps using your desktop (or none GPS/none mobile device). If you have a browser with google gears (easiest to use is Google…
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Future of Google Location History API

Google will be retiring Latitude soon, along with Latitude's API. But they say on their blog that Location History will still be stored and users will be able to access their history on Google Maps' Location History Dashboard. Do you know if there…
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Current URL To Download KML Data From Google Location History?

I need to download google location history data in kml for a period of time. Up until August 26, 2015, a URL in this format worked: https://maps.google.com/locationhistory/b/0/kml?startTime=$start_seconds&endTime=$end_seconds Now a link in…
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Does Google offer an API that I can use to get the location of my phone?

My smartphone reports my location to Google (to G+ and to the Android Device Manager). I'd like to read that location from a website/program to plot my location. I could use another app on my smartphone doing extra tracking but that tends to drain…
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Android - How to get current location (latitude and longitude)?

I am using the following code to get the current location namely (latitude and longitude), but I am not getting current location (latitude and longitude). Anyone knows why? package com.ram.currentlocation; import android.app.Activity; import…
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Extfiltrating Google Location History from Timeline

Note, due to changes to Google's "Timeline" this previous answer no longer works. Google offers a "Timeline" service which allows users to access their phone's location history. I want to extract my phone's current location. If I select "today" in…
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Google api to fetch the location history of a user

I am looking for a google api to fetch the user location history, I know google is storing users location history and we are able to track it from - https://maps.google.com/locationhistory/b/0 But is google providing an api through which we can…
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Emulate GPS or a serial device

Is it possible to get location data out of Google Gears, Google Gelocation API or any other web location API (such as Fire Eagle) in such a format that it appears to other software as a GPS device? It occured to me reading these answers to my…
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OAuth 2.0 (Google API) authentication from a WPF desktop application

I would like to use OAuth 2.0 from within a WPF application I am developing but I am stuck. It appears that the OAuth 2.0 works by forwarding you to a website and getting you confirm details. Of course this is a WPF app, and I wonder if there are…
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Google Latitude API

There is not currently an API offered by Google Latitude. Does anyone know of plans for being offered in the future? If it does, what social networking applications for this technology can you think of?
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Using Google Latitude API to get friends' locations

I'm thinking about writing a perl script that will use the Google Latitude API to track a bunch of people doing a big bike ride. The idea is that we all share location, then this script uses the API, logs in as me and polls google for everyone's…
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Android - how to get location of friend

Is there a way I can access the data in Google Latitude to return the location of a fellow Latitude user?
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Google API giving wrong latitude and longitude values

We have been trying to get appropriate address in google map, but google map always ended up giving wrong latitude and longitude values with which resulted in showing up wrong…
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What is a good Java library to write GPS metadata on JPEGs (in EXIF)?

I have developed a Java application (Latipics) that geotags pictures with location information pulled from Google Latitude. I use an open source library called Sanselan to read/write GPS coordinates from/into JPEGs' metadata. It works mostly great…
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How to get my current Location on my laptop - Java program

As Google latitude is no more. I am writing a java program that get users current location on laptop computer. IP address does not return accurate place and Currently built-in GPS receiver are not common in laptops. I want to use my Android smart…
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