Do both you and your spouse have smart phones? Will you spouse agree to share location with you?
My finance and I decided several years ago that we would simply share our locations with each other as a means of building trust and to help strengthen our relationship. Google latitude is a great solution for this.
Google Latitude is available for most smart phones, and is a simple downloaded application. It’s completely free has enough basic features to allow you to easily locate your spouse. It is not however a robust tracking solution, and does not provide the ability to replay location history. That said, it’s a great solution for trusting spouses.
Here is what you can do with Google Latitude
- Share you location
- Check in at your location and update you Latitude “friends”
- Check the location of a friend
- Get updates on your phone or PC browser
- View your location history
Google latitude is tightly integrated with Google Maps, which is great. One application interface for both navigation and location tracking. It is supported on Android, iPhone, Blackberry, Symbian, Windows Mobile, as well as via your browser .
To get started, just go to your browser and search for Google Latitude, it will take you to the welcome screen. You can input your phone number to have installation instructions mailed to you. Alternatively go to your smart phone application search tool and search for Google Latitude. Either should work just fine.
Latitude is permission based, you tell Latitude who you are willing to share you location with. If your spouse has agreed to share location, there should be no reason why sharing is not always enabled.
To determine if your spouse sharing is on, simply look at the last location report, if the last update is reasonably current, then sharing is active . Latitude does not update at regular time intervals, but does “smart updates” based upon movement.
Certainly Latitude is not foolproof, it is easily disabled. It only shares the location of the phone and is not physically tied to a vehicle’s location like other covert tracking solutions. It also is not hardwired to a vehicle’s power system, like better tracking solutions are – so if the phone’s battery dies, tracking stops. In this case, the phones last location is shown in Google Latitude.
If you think your spouse is cheating, then you really need a covert spouse tracking solution and Latitude is not the solution. If on the other hand you trust your spouse, but want the peace of mind that comes with knowing their location, Latitude is wonderful.
Give it a try today, you’ll enjoy the Latitude experience.
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