/location-history-abroad

Analyze your Google Location History to extract the time you spent abroad.

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location-history-abroad

Available online: https://countdowntocitizenship.com

A tool to help you count down your absences from Canada using your collected 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.

location-history-abroad takes raw Google Takeout output, analyze it and extracts all your absences from Canada. These absences are plotted on a map as polylines as they are discovered. They can also be visualized in a table and downloaded as CSV/Excel file.

Packages used

  • leaflet.js, for rendering the interactive map
  • filestream, for dealing with gigantic Google Takeout files
  • oboe.js, for processing said gigantic files
  • browserify, for helping filestream work properly in the browser
  • bluebird, a promise library for displaying absences as they are found
  • datatables, a jQuery plug-in that add advanced controls (export to CSV/Excel, etc) to HTML tables
  • snakeanim.js, a plugin for Leaflet.js to make polylines animate into existence
  • countries.geo, lightweight world country polygon dataset for fast offline reverse-geocoding

Credit

This project is based on the location-history-visulizer open-source project.

License

Copyright (C) 2017 mmacret contact@matthieumacret.com

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.