Qik clients are now location aware. Based on your chosen privacy setting you can now share with viewers the location from where you are Qikking. If the location is shared, it can be viewed from qik.com on the computer and from your mobile phone – yes, from your mobile phone too!
Set your location permissions from the Qik client on your phone:
The setting on the client determines whether you want to capture the location for the video you are streaming and if so at what level of granularity. This ensures that you are always in control of the privacy and can choose a privacy level for each individual video. The following are the options available for the location setting on the Qik client:
- Off: When set to this, the location from where you are streaming is not captured.
- City: The location is captured and displayed at the city level, i.e. viewers will see the city from where you are streaming and nothing more.
- Street: The street from where you start streaming is displayed to the viewer.
- Track Live/Precise: In this case as you stream and move around, your location is tracked and displayed. For example: here’s a link to video of a Qikker skiing and a link to a video of a Qikker who ran the Tokyo Marathon.
Setting location permissions from the Edit Profile area while logged into your Qik account on the web:
The setting available from your Edit Profile page is the final mechanism to keep the location of all your Qik videos private or public or only show as an approximation.
This feature is available for both GPS-enabled and non-GPS enabled phones. For non-GPS enabled phones, CellID is used for determining the location. That means that Qik’s technology detects the location of the nearest cell tower to figure out where you are.
Well, as always we welcome your thoughts and feedback. So, drop us a line at support@qik.com and let us know what you think.