New Google Latitude: the Geo Community

As you may have already understood: we are Google fans. We use Google search engine (to browse the web), Gmail (to organize our mails, chats, tasks), Google Calendars (to organize our time and share our calendars), Google Maps (to find our itineraries) and now Google Maps API to build our website.

You may ask where I’m going with this basic statement? Well, since the beginning of February, Google launched Latitude, an easier way to stay connected with your friends and contacts. How? It’s, again, all based on a visual user-friendly interface which we all know: Google Maps, through your computer or your mobile phone. What you see are the picture-icons of the friends you decided to share info with and, through this interface, you may

-see where they are

-share your location

-interact with them (send an email, send a text message, send an IM, or phone them)

The only problem about Latitude right now is that you only find it in a limited number of countries and for a limited number of phones, including the iPhone! (oh yeah, btw, we are also Apple fans). Anyway, Latitude is such a simple tool -already tried many times on different plateforms, without real success- that only Google could make it interesting to use, as everything is interconnected with your Google login.

This could lead us in a near future to a new option on Geoviu: an all-in-one map with the news, the online-services  and your own personal community.