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by grepper 4271 days ago
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 collected about them, without having to fiddle with cryptic pieces of software.

Would love to hear your thoughts!

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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 when I zoom in I can't see anything - presumably because I've spent so little time there compared to my home town.

Some sort of "renormalization" of the heatmap would probably "fix"/change that.

added a pullrequest for that :)