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It's somewhat scary but I also find it pretty interesting. I wish there was a simple way to plot all of my data for the entire year or even all of the data Goog

It's somewhat scary but I also find it pretty interesting. I wish there was a simple way to plot all of my data for the entire year or even all of the data Google has. Between Google and various social networks I'm sure you could put together a pretty interesting map of someone's travels. Logging in and going to: https://maps.google.com/locationhistory/b/0/kml?startTime=1356998400000&endTime=1386651600000 https://maps.google.com/locationhistory/b/0/kml?startTime=13... Gave me all my location history for this year.

nswanberg 13y ago
It was a little more work than I thought it would be, but I was able to quickly download my location history in six month chunks and show those chunks on Goole Earth: https://photos-1.dropbox.com/t/0/AAAg-MWGU24ypRXKKQKhdv0Hu4oftx36dbPiu3ykz0W4ew/12/10760/jpeg/2048x1536/3/1386622800/0/2/location-history.jpg/Xj_4u7kV0gQZKzW4TpRoG6XFJPSsX1dt836hkZzzTWc https://photos-1.dropbox.com/t/0/AAAg-MWGU24ypRXKKQKhdv0Hu4o... This image is unlikely to be of much interest to anyone but me, though. But for me it's a fun reminder of where I've been, and a reminder that I haven't been to all that many places.
- berberous 13y ago
  Link doesn't work
  - nswanberg 13y ago
    Lame, but thanks: https://www.dropbox.com/s/pec21x5ti9k6ge0/location-history.jpg https://www.dropbox.com/s/pec21x5ti9k6ge0/location-history.j...
    - sukuriant 13y ago
      You are surprisingly globe-trotty (I don't know who you are; but, you do seem to ping around a lot), and you seem to have an interest in either riding trains or driving long distances. Are you a consultant of some sort?
      - skeletonjelly 13y ago
        The straight line is probably a plane flight. As in, the phone was turned off as the departure location and back on at the destination.
        sukuriant 13y ago
        Indeed. I was referring to the squiggly line in the center of the country that looked like he was going along a road of some sort
      - nswanberg 13y ago
        Only one of those trips was for work--the rest were trips to see friends and family, and traveling (and a few of those were visits due simply to spurious data--it shows me visiting Canada twice, but only the Quebec trip was real. The other was when my phone apparently decided it was in Banff). I would have loved to take the train on most of those trips, but they don't allow dogs or go where I need to go. And this is only since mid-2010. Had I had data from before then I could have shown some decidedly uninteresting maps.
pgrote 13y ago
The Sage app attempts to do this for you.

nswanberg 13y ago

It was a little more work than I thought it would be, but I was able to quickly download my location history in six month chunks and show those chunks on Goole Earth: https://photos-1.dropbox.com/t/0/AAAg-MWGU24ypRXKKQKhdv0Hu4oftx36dbPiu3ykz0W4ew/12/10760/jpeg/2048x1536/3/1386622800/0/2/location-history.jpg/Xj_4u7kV0gQZKzW4TpRoG6XFJPSsX1dt836hkZzzTWc https://photos-1.dropbox.com/t/0/AAAg-MWGU24ypRXKKQKhdv0Hu4o... This image is unlikely to be of much interest to anyone but me, though. But for me it's a fun reminder of where I've been, and a reminder that I haven't been to all that many places.

berberous 13y ago
Link doesn't work
- nswanberg 13y ago
  Lame, but thanks: https://www.dropbox.com/s/pec21x5ti9k6ge0/location-history.jpg https://www.dropbox.com/s/pec21x5ti9k6ge0/location-history.j...
  - sukuriant 13y ago
    You are surprisingly globe-trotty (I don't know who you are; but, you do seem to ping around a lot), and you seem to have an interest in either riding trains or driving long distances. Are you a consultant of some sort?
    - skeletonjelly 13y ago
      The straight line is probably a plane flight. As in, the phone was turned off as the departure location and back on at the destination.
      - sukuriant 13y ago
        Indeed. I was referring to the squiggly line in the center of the country that looked like he was going along a road of some sort
    - nswanberg 13y ago
      Only one of those trips was for work--the rest were trips to see friends and family, and traveling (and a few of those were visits due simply to spurious data--it shows me visiting Canada twice, but only the Quebec trip was real. The other was when my phone apparently decided it was in Banff). I would have loved to take the train on most of those trips, but they don't allow dogs or go where I need to go. And this is only since mid-2010. Had I had data from before then I could have shown some decidedly uninteresting maps.

pgrote 13y ago

The Sage app attempts to do this for you.