Google Personal Location History to Shapefile

gistfile1.txt

from xml.dom import minidom
import fiona
from shapely.geometry import mapping, Point
from dateutil.parser import parse



def xml_to_python(xml_file):
    output = []
    xmldocument = minidom.parse(xml_file)
    placemarks = xmldocument.getElementsByTagName('Placemark')
    for placemark in placemarks:
        track = placemark.getElementsByTagName('gx:Track')[0]
        locations = track.getElementsByTagName('gx:coord')
        times = track.getElementsByTagName('when')
        for time, location in zip(times,locations):
            x,y,z = map(float, location.firstChild.nodeValue.split(' '))
            timestamp = parse(time.firstChild.nodeValue)
            output.append({'properties':{
                               'timestring': time.firstChild.nodeValue, 
                               'x': x, 
                               'y':y, 
                               'z':z,
                            },
                           'geometry':mapping(Point([x,y,z]))})

    return output
    

def list_of_points_to_shapefile(list_of_points, shapefile):
  schema = {
      'geometry': 'Point',
      'properties': {
          'x':'float', 
          'y':'float', 
          'z':'float', 
          'timestring': 'str',
      }
  }
  with fiona.open(shapefile, 'w', 'ESRI Shapefile', schema) as c:
      for item in list_of_points:
          c.write(item)
          
if __name__ == '__main__':
    kml = r'C:\Users\cfricke\Desktop\history-07-25-2014.kml'
    shapefile = r'C:\Users\cfricke\Desktop\history-07-25-2014.shp'
  
    list_of_points = xml_to_python(kml)
    list_of_points_to_shapefile(list_of_points, shapefile)