It's now 3 months since Latitude was dropped. We've just had another ...

Julian Bond - 2013-11-08 08:24:00+0000 - Updated: 2013-11-08 08:24:00+0000

It's now 3 months since Latitude was dropped. We've just had another update to the beta of the new (desktop) Maps.

There's still no way to set your location from Desktop web, iOS or Mobile Web so that it appears correctly on your G+ Profile, attached to G+ Posts or shared in G+ posts.

What's up, Google Locations Team? Did the cat get your coding fingers?

This is a feature request because I want to be able to set location on my profile and on my posts from desktop web using the Chrome browser. IP and Wifi location is good enough. And I want to see "Nearby" posts in the desktop web view of G+

https://support.google.com/gmm/answer/3001634?p=maps_lat_faq

Latitude has been retired - Maps for mobile Help

Julian Bond - 2013-11-09 07:47:15+0000

Pageing +Joe LaPenna !

Julian Bond - 2013-11-14 10:14:50+0000 - Updated: 2013-11-14 10:18:31+0000

Say you don't have an Android device. Does this page about enabling location reporting make any sense? At all?
https://support.google.com/plus/answer/2998354?p=plus_location&rd=1

In desktop Chrome, try this
https://plus.google.com/app/basic/stream/nearby
Either hardly anyone in London is posting public geo-located G+ posts or this is broken. I'm 25 miles from London and yet I'm seeing only 13 posts in the last hour coming from anything up to 50 miles away on the far side of London.

Is anyone using this thing?

Joe LaPenna - 2013-11-23 04:27:18+0000

iOS support has arrived:
https://plus.google.com/110081708242219680330/posts/R5CEkejJRAt

Julian Bond - 2013-11-23 08:19:55+0000

Hooray!

I look forward to the rest of the feature requests above appearing at some time in the future.

Julian Bond - 2013-11-23 08:37:47+0000

I'm still puzzled by location support in the Chrome browser. It seems to sometimes work depending on the machine it's running on. On my desktop (Chrome-Win7) if I go to the mobile web page (https://plus.google.com/app/basic/stream) I don't get offered location when posting, but nearby does kind of work after saying yes to "Your location is needed to complete this action but your device does not have location services. Would you like Google to approximate your location?"

But using iOS Chrome on an old iPod Touch, location is offered when posting. It's weirdly inconsistent.

Julian Bond - 2013-11-24 10:11:56+0000

Update on that: This is all using Chrome-Win7 using the mobile web url (https://plus.google.com/app/basic/stream). Use the iPhone iOS user agent string and you get check in and the ability to add locations to posts. Use the default Chrome user agent and you don't. BTW, changing user agent strings seems to be a good way of testing the mobile versions of Google's web properties. I'm using this extension to do it.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/user-agent-switcher-for-c/djflhoibgkdhkhhcedjiklpkjnoahfmg?hl=en-US&gl=US

What's annoying here is the inconsistency.

Julian Bond - 2013-12-14 06:09:42+0000

And now it's 4 months.

Julian Bond - 2014-01-10 08:06:38+0000

And now it's 6 months.

Julian Bond - 2014-05-15 06:12:08+0000

And now it's 9 months.