During the afternoon-night of yesterday was the released an update for Google Maps on Android. The owners of terminals with the Google operating system would notify them through the market that it is available version 5.3 of the fantastic map viewer that Google programs for Android devices.
Among the novelties that this version incorporates is the Possibility of having a GPS position history for Latitude which you can see through the Google.com/latitude website, useful for sharing your position with your contacts and knowing where they are and where you are at all times. Through the Latitude website and the Android application you can Check the last places you have been and share your position. That bar that was so interesting, where that beautiful viewpoint of the last weekend was ...
They ensure that there is also the possibility of do not share the position through Latitude. If you are a privacy sufferer, there is a possibility that your position will not be shared with your Gmail contacts. It will be visible only to you and no one else. Your profile will be private and will not appear available to anyone.
Another novelty is the 'checking in home'. By setting 'home' in your house, or your work in 'work', you will be able to observe a lot of statistics and synchronize when you are connected from home or if this job robs you of half your life. You will see the time you spend at home, establish your personal address and every time you are getting home, Latitude will tell you that you are at 'home' and your friends will know that you have already arrived home safe and sound (I can think of night applications , girlfriends, friends, parties with excess alcohol ... xD).
In addition, Google has incorporated a voting system for Latitude. If you are in a 'Hotpot' of the Google Places program, You can give your opinion about it to share it with other people who use Google Places. You can recommend a place or make it green so that no one enters.
With this update of Google Maps, the brand that started as a search engine takes 'the rest' in terms of social networks. It seeks the integration of the user and his social life to very good applications in themselves. It does not modify the operation of the application at all. For those of us who do not use Latitude, Maps will remain the program that it was to consult points on the map and directly access Google Navigator and use GPS.
As long as it doesn't happen like before, that when he felt like it, he stopped updating the position, for the latitude fans he is con… onuda
I love it, but unfortunately few people use it yet ... time to time.
Hello good. I can not find how to define where my home and my work are, and to detect that I am in one of those places. Somebody made it?
Thank you!
Can someone explain to me how to do cheking home or cheking work? I don't see the option anywhere
Anyone who has the APK? I can't install it from the Market on my Nexus S (I'm in Costa Rica)
Mae you have the nexos s in the 850 3G band
No mae, I have it on edge!
I used it before to find the MRW office and it took me straight to the door haha
For travel it will be very useful!
A greeting.
I am from Mexico and I installed the new version to a lg gt 540 and it does not work, it indicates that the maps application has unexpectedly interrupted the process com.google.android.apps.maps that I have to do
The same thing happened to me also with lg gt 540. Has anyone any suggestions?
I also stopped working the maps was when he asked me for the update and I don't know how to make it work
Hello everyone, I also have problems with the maps application of my mini xperia, can someone help me?