Google is retiring its Latitude location-sharing service on August 9th

Google is retiring its Latitude

As part of its announcement of the new-look Maps app for Android today, Google slipped in some other news. Latitude, the social location-sharing service that launched in February 2009, is to be retired on August 9th 2013. Its features will be split between the Google+ mobile app and the Android OS – but it appears that iOS users will no longer be able to maintain a location history with Google.

An information page on the Google website explains that Latitude has been removed from the latest version of Google Maps for Android, and that the Latitude app for iPhone will be removed from the App Store. Additionally, the Latitude API will be withdrawn, meaning any apps that use it to access your location and location history (such as the recently-launched Esplorio) will no longer be able to do so

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Google Removes All The Clouds From Google Maps And Earth

Google has just rid the earth of clouds. Well, Google Earth, at least. They’ve just pushed an update to the satellite imagery found in Google Earth and Google Maps, offering a higher-res (and now cloud free) view of the earth than ever before.

By tapping the tools they built for the Planetary Time Machine project they showed last month, Google was able to process and combine all of the photos they had for each region of earth — that’s hundreds of terabytes of data — until they had an almost completely clear shot of the entire globe. Go, now, Brave Adventurer! Explore the world from the comforts of your five-wheeled vessel, the SS Herman Miller!

Central Papua, Indonesia — Before And After The Cloud Patch

Source: Google Removes All The Clouds From Google Maps And Earth | Techcrunch