GooglePlaynice helps iPhone autoupdate Google Latitude

Playnice helps iPhone autoupdate Google Latitude

Map Image Recently, Google had launched the browser-based web app called Latitude for the iPhone. This app enables users to let their friends know about their whereabouts. As this app is a web app, users have to visit the web page every time they feel like updating their location.

According to Gizmodo, Nat Friedman, co-founder of Ximian, has developed a tool to automatically update users’ Google Latitude location with their iPhone location. The script is called Playnice and users should run it in Cron, which enables users to schedule scripts to run automatically at a certain time or date.

This script works by scraping the iPhone location from MobileMe’s Find My iPhone feature. It utilizes the code from Tyler Hall’s sosumi project. Once the Find My iPhone feature has been enabled, the iPhone will regularly send its location to MobileMe.

Google, too, had to be scraped as it doesn’t offer an API to update Latitude yet. Nat Friedman received valuable help from Jack Catchpoole in scraping Google.

In order for this script to work, a MobileMe subscription is necessary.

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