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Re: Show HN: Generate interactive heatmaps from your Google Location History data

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Post by ankushio » Mon, Oct 06, 2014, 2:11 AM UTC

mrfusion wrote: post #6

I hope this isn't too dumb of a question but what's the best way to start collecting location history? Will it run down my iphone battery.

The Google app on the iPhone has the option of storing and reporting location history. You can enable it by Google App -> Settings (Gear icon on the top left) -> Privacy -> Location -> Location Reporting.

They claim to have optimized the app not to drain the battery life. I have been using it for over an year and I don't see an issue with my battery life.

Re: Show HN: Generate interactive heatmaps from your Google Location History data

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Post by jonalmeida » Mon, Oct 06, 2014, 2:26 AM UTC

whackedspinach wrote: post #7

How much data do most people have? The page seems to be struggling to process my ~83MB.

185MB. It's processing, but I fear I'll be here all night..

Re: Show HN: Generate interactive heatmaps from your Google Location History data

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Post by s0rce » Mon, Oct 06, 2014, 3:29 AM UTC

You should enable zip file uploading.

Re: Show HN: Generate interactive heatmaps from your Google Location History data

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Post by flaie » Mon, Oct 06, 2014, 3:32 AM UTC

This is awesome. I can even see where I'm usually stuck in traffic jam and where my train to work stops every day!

I had 50MB of data, and it took at least one minute to process the JSON file.

Re: Show HN: Generate interactive heatmaps from your Google Location History data

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Post by Kortaggio » Mon, Oct 06, 2014, 4:57 AM UTC

This is really cool! For people who don't want to wait to upload their data, here are some annotated screenshots of interesting locations from my data (I had ~140 MB of it, accumulated over the last year):

http://imgur.com/a/9H6vb

It's amazing that I can zoom into a city that I've been to and nostalgically recount the story behind each location on the map. I can see this being a great storytelling aid that goes with your photo albums.

Re: Show HN: Generate interactive heatmaps from your Google Location History data

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Post by kristofferR » Mon, Oct 06, 2014, 5:21 AM UTC

Sweet, but you gotta make it possible to save the generated heat map somehow. It took around an hour to load my location data here.

Re: Show HN: Generate interactive heatmaps from your Google Location History data

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Post by BorisMelnik » Mon, Oct 06, 2014, 6:09 AM UTC

Crashed several times, I have 250Mb of data which I think is unusually large for someone who pretty much only goes back and forth to my office and home. Either way from the screenshots looks really cool.

Re: Show HN: Generate interactive heatmaps from your Google Location History data

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Post by superphil0 » Mon, Oct 06, 2014, 2:26 PM UTC

bjornsing wrote: post #4

grepper wrote: post #2

I put together a little imgur album with some examples from my own Location History: http://imgur.com/a/qLm1Q (I'm sure yours are much more interesting, though!) location-history-visualizer is tool for visualizing your complete, consolidated, collected Google Location History. It works directly in your web browser – no software to download, no packages to install. Everyone deserves to know what data is being collecte…

Nice! :) The only suggestion for improvement I can offer is to think through if it makes sense to "renormalize" the heatmap when I move the map or zoom the map. The current "normalization" has two for me unexpected effects: a) My home and office is not colored "warmer" than many other places in my home town, although I bet I spend 90% of my time in those two places, and b) I can see that I've been e.g. to Vienna, but…

added a pullrequest for that :)

Re: Show HN: Generate interactive heatmaps from your Google Location History data

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Post by iamryo » Tue, Oct 07, 2014, 12:31 AM UTC

Here's mine - http://imgur.com/a/gRiyk

This is pretty awesome, but could definitely use persistent data so we can just share the map. Could also use off-client/background processing - might be working on this piece soon...