Ok, so resurrecting an old thread, sorry.

Anyway, has anyone looked at whether we could use Latitude?

We now have some web runtimes working and that can be integrated in stand-alone applications (e.g. see Macuco and the recently released Phonegap).

So using Google Maps should be easy enough from what I've read (I hasten to add I'm not a web programmer).

There is also a Google Latitude api for finding the positions of people: http://code.google.com/apis/gears/api_geolocation.html, which could presumably be added to a map overlay or the like, so at this point we'd be able to see the location of people on Latitude (I think).

and there's an api which allows you to ask Google for your location: http://code.google.com/apis/gears/ge..._protocol.html

Now, although we don't necessarily need the location information, I wonder if using this service would allow us to appear on Latitude too (and therefore make us visible to other people too)?

Any thoughts or ideas?