Getting past checkins of an authenticated user in Google latitude API via JSON

Question

I cross-posted this to the latitude-api google group but there doesn't seem to be alot of activity around there so here it goes:

is there a way to use the latitude api to GET the recent checkins of an authenticated user? I fiddled around with the latitude-api examples in Java but no avail.

Just to be clear: I would like to get a JSON response that includes the name and the time of past checkins. I couldn't find any reference to this in the places api nor in the latitude api. Would I have to somehow manually assign a place to a lat/long response? However that would still not give me the actual status of the user (checked in or not).

Any pointers?

Cheers, Vincent

Answer 1

Alright, I managed to solve this:

The Android Latitude checkins do not get handled by the latitude api or the places api but by the Google Buzz api. So this would be the right place to start looking.