he Apple/Google divorce continues to come into focus: Apple quietly bought Placebase, a mapping service company, back in July. Apple doesn’t buy companies it’s not going to use. Meaning, Apple’s getting into making their own maps. Peace out, Google.

Seth at ComputerWorld, who put this together, points to a post on GigaOm last year detailing the awesomeness of PlaceBase vs. Google Maps—mainly, customization and tons of ways to layer multiple kinds of data sets onto maps, with an API that makes it easy to layer on those data sets.

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Google has released Google Latitude for iPhone and iPod touch as a web application running in Safari.

Google Latitude lets you see the location of your friends on a map and share your location with others. It also features location search and directions.

You can access Google Latitude by navigating to http://www.google.com/latitude in your iPhone’s browser. You must be on the 3.0 firmware and in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, or New Zealand.
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Google today announced a new service which competes with the likes of Loopt and BrightKite. Latitude is a location-based social network which is now a part of Google Maps. The service will not only let you see your location in Google Maps, but will also let you see where your friends are as well. It’s currently available for the Android and several other phones.

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Apple has begun seeding iPhone 2.2 Beta 2 to developers. It had been discovered in Beta 1 that Apple included APIs related to Google Street View in Google Maps, and in the latest seed Street View is now fully enabled. Additionally, Read the full story

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