I like the fact that my Android phone records my location timeline from Google Maps, but the fact that this is stored in Google servers creeps me out.

I know you can download the entire location history database from Google so I was planning on building a custom app to store and browse this data.

I was also curious if there would be the possibility of making the phone send locations to this app instead of Google, but I don’t know much about Android and I don’t know if this would be possible.

What do you think about it? Is there already an app like this? Do you think this is a good idea?

    • matto@lemm.eeEnglish
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      2 months ago

      I’ve tried it in iOS, and spent a lot of time fiddling with the settings, but for the life of me I can’t get a decent resolution from it. I get very distant points and I was no able to improve it, so I gave up :(

      • drudoo@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        I’ve used it for 5 years on iOS with zero issues at all. Set it to ‘Move’ and you will get great resolution.