Anyone else signed up to Latitude on Google Maps? I'll stalk you if you stalk me :shifty:
Dunno what that is, but I'll look. :)
Google's motto: don't do privacy.
I set it up on my phone. Tried to get my brother to set his up for shits & gigs just to try it out, but he suddenly got really nervous.
Brazen, PM me with your gmail address or whatever :)
Quote from: DGuller on October 14, 2009, 11:21:27 AM
Google's motto: don't do privacy.
You can always opt out :)
http://www.theonion.com/content/video/google_opt_out_feature_lets_users
Quote from: derspiess on October 14, 2009, 11:24:43 AM
I set it up on my phone. Tried to get my brother to set his up for shits & gigs just to try it out, but he suddenly got really nervous.
Brazen, PM me with your gmail address or whatever :)
Done. Looking forward to international stalking :P
Wait... can I use this to watch you shower or something? :huh:
Quote from: Caliga on October 14, 2009, 11:34:57 AM
Wait... can I use this to watch you shower or something? :huh:
Yes. Yes you can.
Quote from: Brazen on October 14, 2009, 11:35:38 AM
Quote from: Caliga on October 14, 2009, 11:34:57 AM
Wait... can I use this to watch you shower or something? :huh:
Yes. Yes you can.
:ultra: You've been making me pay for that webcam service all this time, and now you are just giving it away for free???
WIN.
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:lmfao: Where do you come up with this shit?
Getting it; I am not.
Quote from: derspiess on October 14, 2009, 11:24:43 AM
I set it up on my phone. Tried to get my brother to set his up for shits & gigs just to try it out, but he suddenly got really nervous.
Brazen, PM me with your gmail address or whatever :)
Gotcha :D
My phone not supported :( , I want to stalk B. :cry:
I d/led it but it seems to have only installed Google Maps on my phone. Princesca just insisted I cancel my phone's GPS, but shouldn't I at least be able to view the locations of other people? :huh:
Quote from: Caliga on October 14, 2009, 12:46:30 PM
I d/led it but it seems to have only installed Google Maps on my phone. Princesca just insisted I cancel my phone's GPS, but shouldn't I at least be able to view the locations of other people? :huh:
Dunno how it works on your Blackberry (?) but on my soon-to-be-replaced WinMo 6.1 phone, you go to Menu in the Google app & then "Latitude" is one of the options. You can enable, disable, add friends, etc. from that menu.
You have to share your location to participate (though there does seem to be some "hiding" function), but you can manually set your location if you can't or don't want to use GPS.
And if you have a GPS chip in your phone, that should work with Google Maps regardless of whether you subscribe to any other GPS services. I use Google Maps & Bing Mobile as a poor man's GPS navigation service sometimes.
I didn't put it on my Blackberry (though I guess I could...) but rather my Sony Ericcson W760.
Quote from: Tyr on October 14, 2009, 11:50:59 AM
Getting it; I am not.
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I don't have a smartphone :s
Quote from: Brazen on October 14, 2009, 10:13:28 AM
Anyone else signed up to Latitude on Google Maps? I'll stalk you if you stalk me :shifty:
it looks similar to loopt app for iphone, but i signed up for it.
Quote from: Brazen on October 14, 2009, 10:13:28 AM
Anyone else signed up to Latitude on Google Maps? I'll stalk you if you stalk me :shifty:
I'm on Latitude.
Doesn't have South Korea.
Therefore, they're worse than Hirohito. :thumbsdown:
Wow, the grid system is just so... neat and inorganic. Compare and contrast with London's pre-car construction mess :D Never far from a bit of green though :)
Explore the midwest. The squareness of it is overwhelming
Quote from: Grey Fox on October 15, 2009, 06:13:41 AM
Explore the midwest. The squareness of it is overwhelming
I've flown over quite a bit of it. Like a giant and rather unimaginative Amish quilt.
Whee. Stalking me on Latitude must be pretty boring right now (posting from in bed). ;)
I am now LIVE on Latitude. :cool:
Quote from: Brazen on October 15, 2009, 06:07:33 AM
Wow, the grid system is just so... neat and inorganic. Compare and contrast with London's pre-car construction mess :D Never far from a bit of green though :)
Oh, FWIW my phone must be using cell towers sometimes when I'm downtown to triangulate my position. I do NOT work in Kentucky (not that there's anything wrong with that :D ).
Quote from: Caliga on October 21, 2009, 02:33:39 PM
I am now LIVE on Latitude. :cool:
I see you :menace:
Quote from: derspiess on October 21, 2009, 02:37:32 PM
Oh, FWIW my phone must be using cell towers sometimes when I'm downtown to triangulate my position. I do NOT work in Kentucky (not that there's anything wrong with that :D ).
-_-
Same here. It cannot get a fix on my actual location (closest it seemed to get was about 100 meters away).
Quote from: Caliga on October 21, 2009, 02:50:03 PM
Quote from: derspiess on October 21, 2009, 02:37:32 PM
Oh, FWIW my phone must be using cell towers sometimes when I'm downtown to triangulate my position. I do NOT work in Kentucky (not that there's anything wrong with that :D ).
-_-
Same here. It cannot get a fix on my actual location (closest it seemed to get was about 100 meters away).
That's about the limit you can get with cell tower triangulation. We use timing delay to calculate position, but radio waves broadcast from a cell phone don't usually take a direct path back to the cell tower.
Well the thing is my BB has a GPS (supposedly) so does it really need to be relying on tower triangulation?
The buildings downtown affect my phone's GPS signal (same thing for my stand-alone GPS which is more robust). But once I get out of downtown, it is pretty accurate.
My HTC Hero even tries to use wifi if it can't use GPS or the cell towers :lol:
My Hero shows my home location as a few corners off ... at the place of a whorehouse.
Quote from: Syt on October 21, 2009, 03:20:20 PM
My Hero shows my home location as a few corners off ... at the place of a whorehouse.
That's your story and you're sticking to it!
Quote from: Caliga on October 21, 2009, 03:21:25 PM
Quote from: Syt on October 21, 2009, 03:20:20 PM
My Hero shows my home location as a few corners off ... at the place of a whorehouse.
That's your story and you're sticking to it!
There's over a dozen "studios" within 15 minutes from my home that I noticed when walking hom from various public transport stops, so chances are good that if the location is a bit off that it covers one of those locations. The unregistered street hookers neer Praterstern 2000 m or so off would worry me more as location. :P
Quote from: Caliga on October 21, 2009, 03:12:51 PM
Well the thing is my BB has a GPS (supposedly) so does it really need to be relying on tower triangulation?
Do you have your GPS activated? If so then it shouldn't need it for Google Latitude; but the within 100 m accuracy would make suspect that you are using tower triangulation rather than GPS.
Yes, the BB says the GPS is turned on.
Hmm, do i really want to be able to stalk Cal...
Quote from: katmai on October 21, 2009, 03:34:48 PM
Hmm, do i really want to be able to stalk Cal...
Probably not. I stopped carrying tamales in my pockets a few months ago. :(
Quote from: Caliga on October 21, 2009, 03:36:53 PM
Quote from: katmai on October 21, 2009, 03:34:48 PM
Hmm, do i really want to be able to stalk Cal...
Probably not. I stopped carrying tamales in my pockets a few months ago. :(
:huh:
IOW I don't think I have anything that you might want.... unless you wanna go all Brokeback Mountain on me and shit :perv:
Cal you know you have been top of the list since 2003 to kick in the cajones.
Plus I might decide to steal Roscoe while i'm there.
The GPS in my own phone is not very accurate either, especially when I'm indoors. It can often be one parallel street off. My guess is that the tolerances for the phone GPS are much, much looser than tolerances for car GPS devices, for reasons of practicality.
Quote from: katmai on October 21, 2009, 03:44:56 PM
Cal you know you have been top of the list since 2003 to kick in the cajones.
Plus I might decide to steal Roscoe while i'm there.
Make sure you steal his hubcaps first :contract:
Quote from: derspiess on October 21, 2009, 03:54:22 PM
Quote from: katmai on October 21, 2009, 03:44:56 PM
Cal you know you have been top of the list since 2003 to kick in the cajones.
Plus I might decide to steal Roscoe while i'm there.
Make sure you steal his hubcaps first :contract:
I need to leave something for Tommy to nab...ooh i'll leave his sunglasses.
Quote from: katmai on October 21, 2009, 03:55:00 PM
I need to leave something for Tommy to nab...ooh i'll leave his sunglasses.
Tommy is Argentine. He will steal your language & then corrupt it. Or if you were British, he'd try to steal some land.
Quote from: katmai on October 21, 2009, 03:44:56 PM
Cal you know you have been top of the list since 2003 to kick in the cajones.
Plus I might decide to steal Roscoe while i'm there.
Roscoe nearly escaped just now. :mad:
The little bitch broke the iron ring thing that connects his leash to his collar (I TOLD Princesca that thing would not hold :frusty: ), and then like five minutes later while I was leading him back to the house by his collar he slipped out of his collar as well. Fortunately he responds well to Roscoe P. Coltrane noises so I was able to nab him again, but I had to carry his ass back into the basement. <_<
Quote from: derspiess on October 21, 2009, 03:59:57 PM
Tommy is Argentine. He will steal your language & then corrupt it. Or if you were British, he'd try to steal some land.
Isn't he half-Argentine and like half German? So IOW, OMG Secret Nazi Lovechild
Quote from: Caliga on October 21, 2009, 05:14:08 PM
Quote from: katmai on October 21, 2009, 03:44:56 PM
Cal you know you have been top of the list since 2003 to kick in the cajones.
Plus I might decide to steal Roscoe while i'm there.
Roscoe nearly escaped just now. :mad:
The little bitch broke the iron ring thing that connects his leash to his collar (I TOLD Princesca that thing would not hold :frusty: ), and then like five minutes later while I was leading him back to the house by his collar he slipped out of his collar as well. Fortunately he responds well to Roscoe P. Coltrane noises so I was able to nab him again, but I had to carry his ass back into the basement. <_<
The gate our of our backyard managed to be left open the other day. Our two year old mutt of course ran around the neighborhood, and someone called bylaw enforcement on us. :angry:
But seven year old Roscoe just stayed in the backyard. :wub:
Are there any GPS collars out there? Those might be useful.
Quote from: DGuller on October 21, 2009, 05:22:07 PM
Are there any GPS collars out there? Those might be useful.
Malthus showed me a RF collar for his cat. If the cat goes missing he can take this very large device and it 'll make an old-school "beep" sound as he gets closer to dear old fluffy. :lol:
I of course told him it was simpler to not let your cat outside.
Google is shutting Latitude down next month. :mad:
I need some other tool with which to stalk people now. :hmm:
They said to use Google +
Quote from: garbon on July 13, 2013, 07:54:49 AM
They said to use Google +
That's their dumb Facebook clone, right? Don't wanna.
Well that's where they said the feature went.
Quote from: Caliga on July 13, 2013, 06:26:41 AM
Google is shutting Latitude down next month. :mad:
I need some other tool with which to stalk people now. :hmm:
Seriously. How am I gonna know where Brazen is at any given moment?
Wait, I could have known when Brazen was on the can?
Quote from: derspiess on July 13, 2013, 09:18:27 AM
Quote from: Caliga on July 13, 2013, 06:26:41 AM
Google is shutting Latitude down next month. :mad:
I need some other tool with which to stalk people now. :hmm:
Seriously. How am I gonna know where Brazen is at any given moment?
I hadn't seen you on there in a while. :hmm: