Why YSK: So you can turn off location tracking in Google
Go to the My Activity settings in your Google account and turn off “Location History”. The Google and Google Maps apps record your location history by default.

  • pe1uca
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    1 year ago

    I tried this since I’m using graphenOS so I’m fairly certain I can cut this data from google, but as you said, sometimes it’s a good thing to have this data. For me is just fun to watch where I’ve been.

    Using GPSLogger and traccar I was able to get something similar to the timeline in Google maps. Of course it won’t be the same and there are some features missing, but it’s something
    https://github.com/mendhak/gpslogger/
    https://github.com/traccar/traccar