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by Bassetts 4295 days ago
I have messed around with mapping my location history and had some similar problems. Apparently I have been to Essex, UK although I have never been there in my life.

I tracked down the teleporting problem to the fact my tablet was at home and turned on. It seems you can't set location reporting per device, it is either on or off, so you end up being in two locations at once. I was going to look in to trying to remove problem points be setting a distance or speed threshold. That brings the problem of knowing which data point to keep and which to drop though, which I have not got a solution for yet apart from requiring user interaction.

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In my case, my phone is the only device should report location data, and the times on either side of the teleport were correct, it just seems to be missing the trip itself. As far as removing the points, there seem to be plenty of points at the a similar time and location, so removing either one wouldn't be an issue. However it's currently one continuous track, and removing a point would break that.

My idea was to use speed as the constraint, give the points on both sides a label, and have the line between them be transparent. I just need to figure out that last part.