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With regards to issue #1. The drain of numerous applications using the GPS hardware on the phone and thus killing battery life makes me wish Google Latitude had an API that devs could use to request my GPS co-ordinates. If you can login via Facebook why can't you do location via Latitude ?

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Yeah that makes perfect sense. Have Android handle the actual GPS interaction and allow app developers to poll for that info. Then, have a global setting in the phone's settings that says how often it can poll the GPS. Get on it, Google!

http://code.google.com/apis/latitude/

I haven't looked at it super closely, but could the interested parties let me know what's missing? I'll forward your feedback to the right people.

I don't know how I missed this. Everything I was thinking seems to be included. The only potential feature that it lacks is access to information on users other than myself, such as would be available through the web interface. I can see numerous reasons, however, as to why Google would not expose this information through an API.

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