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Over the past day, some users have reported that their Google Maps Timeline is missing. As of December, Google Maps has...

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Anyone have a FOSS alternative to this? I want my every move tracked but don't want it to be by google.

[–] otter 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

There are a few selfhosted versions of this.

It can be helpful to reference this info, and if it's only stored on your computer then I don't see the downside

https://dawarich.app/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Yeah it's real nice, I like the app a lot. Thanks for the recc.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

That's nice, nextcloud also has an app that can do something similar, but not sure if it works with something other than .GPX files

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Well, that's "fun" .. not.

I specifically backed this up within Google Maps to ensure that I kept this information.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Oh so that explains it. I was able to restore the backup, and while it didn't do anything the first time, I tried again yesterday and it looks like it worked. I'm still missing some days, but I don't know if that's because I actually didn't go anywhere that day.