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Mapping Google maps location history with P5.js

josephhjosephh
edited May 2018 in Share Your Work

Hey guys,

I wanted to share with you a code that can map your location history with p5.js and the library mappa.js. With the recent law in Europe, GDPR (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regulation) you can ask Google to give you your data that they collect on every products they have (drive, gmail, chrome...). Just go on your google profile and confidentiality and click on "export your data" : Capturen

Then download your data from google maps (history of locations) which is a JSON file with all your stored locations.

This is the result :

map

The files are here : https://github.com/johhnry/google-map-hist-loc-map

If you have any questions, let me know :)

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Comments

  • kfrajerkfrajer

    I find it is very slow, did you experience the same problem?

    Kf

  • josephhjosephh

    Well if you check json.locations.length in the console you should see the number of stored locations by Google. For me it's 15806 which (I think) is a lot but it's not very slow. You could just draw one location every 10 by changing i++ to i+=10 in the for loop.

  • kfrajerkfrajer

    Yes, you are right. I had about 100k pts. Taking only 10% of them did the trick.

    Thxs for sharing!

    Kf

  • josephhjosephh

    Thanks have a nice day! :)

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