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

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

The new Google export data format from mobiles doesn't include addresses now so you need to reverse geodecode all the coordinates for origin and destinations.

I hacked this together https://gist.github.com/epk/a70dd9b7a2d5bf8e5d86ebdcaefb6b32 to work with the latest JSON file produced by Google Maps on iOS

Thank you for curating the steps and mention of Kepler. Yesterday, I couldn't easily explore location stats as Google Maps deprecated their web timeline visualization, so this was very useful to replicate that quickly.