HTC Hero Sharing Your Locations, Inviting Friends, Accepting an Invitation, Showing Your Friends

To open Latitude after joining:

While viewing a map in any mode, press and then tap Latitude.

Sharing Your Locations

After you join Latitude, you can start sharing your locations with your friends. Only friends that you have explicitly invited or accepted can see your location.

Inviting Friends

To share your location with friends and request to see their locations:

1.In Latitude, press and then tap Add friends.

2.Choose how to add friends:

Selectfrom Contacts. Select any number of friends from People. Friends who already use Latitude have a

icon next to their names.

Add via email address. Enter an email address.

3.Tap Add friends > OK.

If your friends already use Latitude, they receive an email request and a notification on Latitude. If they have not yet joined Latitude, they receive an email request that tells them to sign in to Latitude with their Google account.

Accepting an Invitation

When you get a sharing request from a friend, you can:

Accept and share back. You can see your friends’ locations, and they can see yours.

Accept, but hide my location. You can see your friends’ locations, but they can’t see yours.

Don’t accept. No location information is shared between you and your friends.

You can change how your location is shared with each friend at any time. See “Inviting Friends” for details.

Showing Your Friends

You can show your friends using the map view or the list view.

Map view

When you open Google Maps™, it shows your friends’ locations. Each friend is represented by a photo icon with an arrow pointing at his or her approximate location. If a friend has opted to enable city-level sharing, his or her icon will not have an arrow and it appears in the middle of the city. Refer to “Inviting Friends” earlier in this chapter for more details.

To see your friend’s profile and connect with him or her, tap the photo. This will display your friend’s name, and then tap the balloon right above his or her icon.

To see other friends, tap either one of the arrow buttons next to the balloon.

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