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Re:Analyzing My Google Location History by pmontra on Friday November 23, 2018 @07:29AM (#18516013)
I'd prefer it to be saved locally or sent to a server of mine with some standard protocol (maybe NMEA 0183 over HTTP POSTs) and never to Google. Of course I could write an app for that (and I did some 8 years ago) but it would be much easier if the OS would cooperate.

By the way, I disabled location services on my devices to prevent at least this form of spying on me.

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Re:Analyzing My Google Location History by netsharc on Friday November 23, 2018 @09:31AM (#18516591)
OwnTracks is an app that does that, https://owntracks.org/ , but I still haven't set up my server to receive the data.

It uses MQTT, which is probably fault tolerant/store data locally if it can't connect to the server right now.

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