Your Google Maps Timeline data visualized as a trajectory.
Google Maps offers a Timeline tool to visualize your location history. But the visualization is limited: their Timeline does not show all datapoints, and each location dot is given the same color.
Instead we can download the location history data and plot it ourselves to show our trajectory in higher resolution, and with each location dot colored by timestamp. This allows a richer visualization for how we move through earth-space.
- Visualize your trajectory from a memorable vacation or road trip.
- Document all the streets you've walked in your city.
- Etc.
- Download your Google Maps timeline data
- Go to maps.google.com
- Navigate to
Your data in Maps
- Download
Location History
- In the notebook, replace
file_name
with the filepath torecords.json
file. - In the notebook, replace
state_date
,end_date
,center
. - Run the notebook and open your
maps.html
file in a browser.