Alternatively, after selecting Share, instead of hitting Copy, tap on any of the suggested messaging app icons to generate the Google Maps location link into a new message on the chosen platform. Tap Copy and paste the link into an email, text, or another messaging app to share the location link.

To copy the location-sharing link on an iPhone or iPad, hit More options and when a Share with a link? pop-up appears, choose Share. After launching the Google Maps app and signing in, tap on the profile circle, pick Location sharing, then hit Share location or New share. Note: The Google Earth API has been deprecated as of December 12th, 2014 so this functionality would need to be created using the Google Maps V3 API.In case the user wants to share their real-time Google Maps location with a person who doesn't have a Google account, they can give them a link that will work for up to 24 hours. The code for the example is available here.

Visit and search for 'Earth Pad' to jump to that application. You'll want to run the app in multiple web browser windows and/or different web browsers. Note when you start the Earth Pad app it requests permission to access your Google Account and your email address to allow sharing a session. Users can create placemarks, which can then be seen by all the other users in the session, and even chat. Earth Pad allows multiple users to share the same Earth viewing experience when one user changes the view, it updates for the others. Here is the description of an example app in the Google Earth API Demo Gallery that may provide a starting place:Įarth Pad is an App Engine app that allows multiple users to collaboratively browse the globe. You can implement sharing using the Google Earth API and share Google Earth instances running in the web browser. Syncing multiple Google Earth desktop clients is possible if for example you update content on a server and have a NetworkLink (with auto-refresh enabled) load the shared KML in the clients but interactively sharing changes made in Google Earth clients with each other is not so easily done.

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