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Sharing locations
Proximity alerts allow you to be automatically warned by the application if you go close enough from a location.
How to share locations to others?
- Click on the center of the map icon
to display the center screen pop-up menu;
- Click on the
“Share…”
menu item.
You can also share the location of a displayed waypoint, so its name is also shared:
- Click on the displayed waypoint
to display its pop-up menu;
- Click on the waypoint name
to display all available actions;
- Click on the
“Share…”
menu item.
Once you've chosen to share the location, the system will display you a list of installed external applications that can share things to other users, like e-mails, GMail, Facebook, Twitter, etc.
For example, you can choose to share the location by text message (SMS). In this case, select the “Messages”
menu item. The Message application will be opened.
- Enter the name of the person you want to share the location to
, or select him from the contact chooser
;
- Optionally, you can personalize the message to send
;
- Click on the
“Send”
button.