“The free application allows users to see where their friends are at the moment, and share their current location as well,” Oliver reports. “Google Latitude uses the multitasking capabilities of iOS 4 and the iPhone 4 and iPhone 3GS to share a current location in the background via GPS.”
Features of Latitude, listed by Google, are:
• See your friends on a map — find out who’s nearby and meet up.
• Share your location continuously with whomever you choose — help friends and family stay in touch with you, even when you can’t take out your phone.
• Control your privacy — share only city-level information, hide your location, or turn off background updating at any time.
Read more in the full article here.
More info and download link via Apple’s iTunes App Store here.