Some may complain that this is very Big Brotheresque, but you have the option of turning tracking off at any time so I don't really buy it. I can see several practical uses for Latitude:
- If I am coming home from work and Lori is at home and wants to see how I am faring in traffic to anticipate my arrival time, I can leave my GPS on and she can track me online.
- When we go up to my in-laws in Jersey or down to my Mom's in Richmond, they can follow our progress and know when to expect us (instead of calling every hour asking where we are).
- My boss at work (who is somewhat of a technophobe and looks like this guy) could use this to track all his employees and he could stop calling me and asking where I am.
- If you are taking a road trip with several cars, it would be cool to be able to track where everyone is if people get seperated.
- If you're out bar hopping one night and randomly find out that one of your friends is a few blocks away.
Now is all of this essential to your everyday well being? No, of course not. But I enjoy most advances in technology and believe this does have some practical applications. This is yet another example of a cool gadget delivered by Google that is (of course, once again) FREE to use. And I'm betting that in 3 to 5 years we will see this sort of social GPS functionality embedded in most GPS systems (Garmin, Tom Tom, etc...).
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