 So Google Maps just keeps getting better now. I'm going to go ahead and preface this yes I'm aware of the privacy concerns yes I'm sharing where people are The government already knows where I'm at based on my phone And if you don't want the government to track you or Google to track you turn your phone off don't even have a phone Because that's how that works, but if they're going to track me and since I'm using a phone and wandering around with it all The time and it has GPS in there. I don't have a flip phone. I have a Nexus smartphone. So I why not get some benefit from it? Well, that's what Google is doing now. This is the low new location sharing feature now There's a lot of new features in Google apps This one's a fairly recent one, but I've started using it quite a bit and it's become very handy, especially on my recent trip to Seattle You can find out where people are. So I know my wife's at work and it lets me see right where she's at. Whoops And we're going to go here to maps location sharing I can click on There's my wife and she's at work up as of one minute ago. Her GPS showed there Now I also have my daughter in here and she should be at school right now And appears that she is at school right now and her phone was last This is weird last touch 51 minutes ago, but she I think she turns it off while she's in school She's in high school. So they they frown upon constant phone usage. I know my wife never turns her phone off For she's always playing with it, but what this does is allows people to share location now You do the sharing in the location sharing via the app. That's what it says use the app here So let me show you that on the phone. So here's this me get this out of the way So same menus share location. I can click on it there She is and there my daughter is so these and not Marvin decided not to share but that's a different story I can see that she's near being on farms, which is correct I can then I want to navigate to her there goes it updated. You just double click on it and It tells me from my office how quick to get there all your standard map options So I can start and route right to her now if I want to add and let's see how I'm right here at work And if I wanted to add someone in here, I like the way this works So it lets me know first who I'm sharing my location with those show up at the bottom And when I click this share your real-time location for by default one hour But I still have to either select a person or a method by which to share it. I can share a link I can say until this turns off so you implicitly and specifically have to allow the sharing and this is important That way you can't just kind of fumble around on the phone and add your sharing So I have to implicitly say share my location with and the people on here had to share their location with me And that's an important way the app works that way you don't accidentally have a stalker send you a friend request So to speak or some type of sharing request and you say yes, whatever this thing is and next thing You know people are following you around this is specifically so you can Share with someone so this is like I said, I really like the feature Some people go wow that's creepy knowing where everyone is but being able to do this And I've been I this is my personal one But I have my employees too and we're starting to use it for work because I don't have to ask ETAs or anything like that for my employees if they're routing somewhere You know if they're going on site for a job for client calls We can look we can see them on the map and all this isn't now built in the Google so definitely a pretty sweet system and I'm really happy with it. It definitely works really well and it doesn't have too much of a creepy factor here So like I said, it's really easy to do you go there you can share And in the case of me you can use multiple accounts so I can share my personal one And I can have my other one and I can share separately for them so I can have different groups And it's easy to turn off you can turn it on for one hour You can turn it on for some length of time And but it makes it really easy to find someone. It's also turns out it makes it easy for my Daughter to know dad you haven't left work yet. Are you gonna be on time? And she says me messages, but it's pretty neat. It's location sharing It's free built-in the Google Maps and yes, it does work as long as they're using the Google Maps function It will work on non Android phones So if they're using an iPhone, but they are using a Google address signed into a Google account and they're using the Google Maps on the iPhone Yes, it will share the location back, but it works flawlessly with Android I really don't have any friends using iPhone to really test this with but definitely pretty neat and Something to keep an eye out there if you're looking for kind of a neat and easy way to share or set your employees up Some people have accounts for business and you can share with the employees and see where your team is at Especially if you're like us and traffic becomes a factor driving places So you can kind of predict it, but this is not a charge for service. It's just something else I mean Google's slurping up your data. Anyways, why not get some benefit for it? 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