How to Visualize your Google Location History

LocationHistory.md

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

The python in the gist doesn't work with Google's current export format. Dunno when it broke.

Hi, I believe I have resolved the format issues and it looks to be working again, I believe there was a change to the timestamp format in the JSON. If you are still interested in this project I can fork the project.

I am interested in this project. Please fork it. Thanks.

@Brandon-Clark-00 yah dude just fork the gist and paste in whatever you got. we'd gladly take it even if its rough with logs sprinkled everywhere. :)

@mikeheiser @paulirish I have now forked this, apologies for the delay.