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Location Sharing with Latitude

The Latitude feature gives you a way to let your social network know where you are. You can use it to make sure people know you made your flight or to let your contacts know you’re in their city.

Currently, you can only share information with mutual friends. This means you must invite your friends to share their Latitude information with you, and they must accept the invitation. You can also use Latitude from a laptop or desktop computer, so the feature doesn’t depend on everyone owning a phone. Your four global choices for sharing Latitude location information are as follows:

• Detect automatically: You just let ...