HTC Wildfire manual Joining Latitude, Opening Latitude, Inviting friends to share their locations

166 Maps and location

Finding your friends with Google Latitude (available by country)

Google Latitude™ user location service lets you and your friends share locations and status messages with each other. It also lets you send instant messages and emails, make phone calls, and get directions to your friends’ locations.

Your location is not shared automatically. You must join Latitude, and then invite your friends to view your location or accept their invitations.

Joining Latitude

1.While viewing a map, press MENU and then tap Join Latitude.

2.Read the privacy policy. If you agree with it, tap Agree & Share.

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.

Opening Latitude

After you join Latitude, you can open it to find your friends and view their updates. While viewing a map, press MENU, and then tap Latitude.

Inviting friends to share their locations

1.While viewing a map, press MENU, and then tap Latitude.

2.In Latitude, press MENU, and then tap Add friends.

3.Choose how to add friends:

Select from Contacts	Select any number of friends from your Contacts.
Add via email address	Enter an email address.

4.Tap Add friends.

5.If prompted, tap Yes.

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.

Responding to an invitation

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

Accept and share back	You and your friend can see each other’s locations.
Accept, but hide my location	You can see your friend’s location, but they can’t see
	yours.
Don’t accept	No location information is shared between you and your
	friend.

Viewing your friends’ locations

You can view your friends’ locations on a map or in a list.

When you open Maps, your friends’ locations are shown. Each friend is represented by their picture (from Contacts) with an arrow pointing to their approximate location. If a friend has chosen to share city-level locations, their picture does not have an arrow and appears in the middle of the city.