Latitude-esque Friend Finding

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There is great potential for team sports, social transport, and more here. In 
my case, I have always wanted an App which would allow me to find my cycling 
friends while I am riding. Cyclists usually have a very close average speed, 
and travel long distances, which makes finding friends very difficult. You also 
frequently cannot sacrifice even a finger to fiddle with an application. It 
would be an amazing feature to see my friends on my map while maintaining the 
My Tracks super-cyclocomputer interface. There have been many rides where I 
have arrived a few minutes late on a crappy day and wondered if I was the only 
one who showed up, or if I had just missed everyone. Looking down cross streets 
in the cold/wet/windy with the prospect of chasing a non-existent group is a 
hard blow to motivation. =)

Perhaps this could be satisfied with the combination of map layers, and maybe a 
Latitude API.

A bonus would be the inclusion of proximity associated Latitude friend 
suggestions, and an additional schema entry for a vibration sensor to label bad 
roads, or detect accidents. 

Thank you everyone, this is great and versatile application. Let me know if I 
can help. I have a little bit of experience, and a few spare machines to test 
on.  I'll also check the other requests to see if I can help there. 

Original issue reported on code.google.com by jort...@gmail.com on 15 May 2013 at 3:53

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To do this, we probably need to implement two features.

1. real-time track sharing (so your friends can share their current progress 
with you)
2. overlay multiple tracks (so you can record your track while seeing your 
friends'tracks)

There are already feature requests for these. We will look into them.

Original comment by jshih@google.com on 10 Jun 2013 at 5:45

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