Find Yourself on Google Latitude Without GPS
Wed, Feb 11th, 2009
Google Latitude is a useful--if slightly creepy--way to track your location on a mobile phone or GPS laptop. But you can get roughly the same sense of fleeting privacy on any old Wi-Fi PC; Google Latitude automatically pegged me within about 100 feet of my ground-floor office on GPS-free laptop.
The process works through Skyhook's Wi-Fi mapping and triangulation technology. The results aren't as accurate as a clear GPS signal; I've been misplaced in some neighborhoods by about a half-mile, and Wi-Fi locating is useless in rural areas without a network. But it adds another trick to Google Latitude for free. Here's how to activate the feature in Firefox or Internet Explorer.
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