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How to Visualize your Google Location History

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Google is extremely transparent about the Location History it has on you. You can check it out on the timeline feature in the Google Maps application on the phone, or on https://www.google.com/maps/timeline It is possible that you have that turned off, and in that case, consider yourself lucky.

If there is data there, you can view it online, or Download and Analyze it yourself.

To extract that data, you can go to takeout.google.com and request for the Location History data from there.
This gets generated as a JSON file which you should download.
You can then convert that JSON file to a CSV, by using https://gist.github.com/devdattaT/c9dcae2107622215ff2e798dd185087e
Finally load that data in https://kepler.gl/#/demo to view locations on a Map

Note: The conversion script has been updated on 2024-06-24, to match the updated format which is now generated by Google Takeout

ceemjay commented Jun 23, 2024

Which file does this process? I have tried Records.json which returns a blank file and also one of the monthly files below Semantic Location History.. The latter prints records to the screen ending with
[datetime.datetime(2013, 7, 31, 18, 37, 0, 689000), '2013-07-31', '18:37:00', datetime.datetime(2013, 8, 1, 7, 5, 31, 822000), '2013-08-01', '07:05:31', -1.5501967, 47.2090939, 'CueZO6d0gRwhIJA1y_T-raagsZM', 'An address record', 73.671555, 'N/A', 'N/A']
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/clive/to.py", line 113, in
for r in reader:
File "/home/clive/to.py", line 58, in make_reader
activity_type = segment['activityType']
KeyError: 'activityType'

Thanks

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devdattaT commented Jun 24, 2024

@ceemjay This process has to be run with the Records.json.
I realised that the file generated by Google Takeout, has been updated, and I have updated the conversion script accordingly.

GitMae99 commented Jun 26, 2024

Once I switched to timeline on my device, Google Takeout doesn't export any relevant Timeline data for me. No Records.json. You guys are awesome trying to keep up with Google's latest fiasco. Will continue following your progress. Thank You!

usbrpa commented Jul 1, 2024 •

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Not sure if I am doing this right,.. but I had the same issues with the timeline... need to be able to retrace my travels over the past weeks / months. So I tried something: https://github.com/usbrpa/timeline2map Feel free to have a look.

lsschlieper commented Jul 28, 2024

Not sure if I am doing this right,.. but I had the same issues with the timeline... need to be able to retrace my travels over the past weeks / months. So I tried something: https://github.com/usbrpa/timeline2map Feel free to have a look.

just logged in to say this worked for me. Had to pull out all my timeline history for a court apeal and this tool did the trick. Thanks

dimisjim commented Jul 28, 2024

Indeed, https://github.com/usbrpa/timeline2map works pretty nicely. thanks @usbrpa

It uses the export straight from your android device settings, rather than the one exported via google itself

anselm commented Sep 20, 2024 •

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It's easier to ask chatgpt to generate a view that directly reads the json into a map:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
    <title>Location Path Map</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://unpkg.com/[email protected]/dist/leaflet.css" />
    <script src="https://unpkg.com/[email protected]/dist/leaflet.js"></script>
    <style>
        #map {
            height: 600px;
            width: 100%;
        }
    </style>
</head>
<body>
    <h1>Location Path Map</h1>
    <div id="map"></div>

    <script>
        // Initialize the map and set its view to a default location (centered on the world)
        const map = L.map('map').setView([0, 0], 2);

        // Add OpenStreetMap tile layer
        L.tileLayer('https://{s}.tile.openstreetmap.org/{z}/{x}/{y}.png', {
            attribution: '&copy; <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright">OpenStreetMap</a> contributors'
        }).addTo(map);


        // Fetch location-history.json file
        fetch('location-history.json')
            .then(response => response.json())
            .then(data => {
                // Process each item in the data
                data.forEach(item => {
                    if (item.timelinePath) {
                        console.log("fetching",item)
                        const pathPoints = [];
                        item.timelinePath.forEach(point => {
                            // Split the "geo:" coordinates
                            const [lat, lon] = point.point.replace('geo:', '').split(',');

                            // Add the lat/lon as Leaflet LatLng objects to pathPoints
                            pathPoints.push([parseFloat(lat), parseFloat(lon)]);
                        });

                        // Draw a polyline for each timelinePath
                        const polyline = L.polyline(pathPoints, { color: 'blue' }).addTo(map);
                    }

                });

            })
            .catch(error => console.error('Error fetching location-history.json:', error));
    </script>
</body>
</html>