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It was a little more work than I thought it would be, but I was able to quickly download my location history in six month chunks and show those chunks on Goole Earth:

https://photos-1.dropbox.com/t/0/AAAg-MWGU24ypRXKKQKhdv0Hu4o...

This image is unlikely to be of much interest to anyone but me, though. But for me it's a fun reminder of where I've been, and a reminder that I haven't been to all that many places.



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You are surprisingly globe-trotty (I don't know who you are; but, you do seem to ping around a lot), and you seem to have an interest in either riding trains or driving long distances. Are you a consultant of some sort?


Only one of those trips was for work--the rest were trips to see friends and family, and traveling (and a few of those were visits due simply to spurious data--it shows me visiting Canada twice, but only the Quebec trip was real. The other was when my phone apparently decided it was in Banff).

I would have loved to take the train on most of those trips, but they don't allow dogs or go where I need to go.

And this is only since mid-2010. Had I had data from before then I could have shown some decidedly uninteresting maps.


The straight line is probably a plane flight. As in, the phone was turned off as the departure location and back on at the destination.


Indeed. I was referring to the squiggly line in the center of the country that looked like he was going along a road of some sort




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