Google Location History Helps You Remember Where You’ve Been

visitedplacesGoogleLocations.jpgIf you want to keep track of where you have been you can do it with Google Latitude and Google Location History Dashboard (Beta).

There's a Beta View for Google Location History to visualize your location history. If you've already chosen to enable Location History, the new dashboard view will try to highlight g trends from your existing location history, such as trips you've taken, places you've visited, time spent at home vs. out, and more.You can stoe your past locations and visualize them on Google Maps and Earth. The dashboard showis information, such as trips, frequently visited locations, distance traveled, and more. You can enable Latitude Alerts to get notifications when friends are nearby. Location History allows alerts to only trigger when you are in an unusual place, filtering out routine alerts.

If  wondered how much time you've spent at work recently compared to six months ago, or where it was that you stopped on your last road trip? Check out Location History for some of the answers.If you're a road warrior, the dashboard can help you remember your trips and where you stopped along the way. You can also so the total number of miles traveled.

Google Location History is  opt-in only and your location history is available privately to you and nobody else. You may be asked to periodically re-enter your password when opening any Location History page, even if you're signed in to your Google Account already (just to make sure you're really you). You may always delete any or all of your location history in the Manage History tab or disable Location History at any time.

To try out the new dashboard yourself, enable Google Latitude in the background on your phone, turn on Google Location History, and wait a few days (up to a week) to build up enough history for the dashboard to begin showing information.

You may also want to try turning on WiFi or GPS on your phone to improve location history accuracy.
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