I use the location tracking of Google Maps/Google Timeline constantly for work, and it’s exceedingly helpful to know when I was at certain cities, buildings, etcetera. Of course, this means I’m basically signing my soul away to Google. But while I would have thought that there would be lots of GPS tracking apps available, I can’t really find any. Is there any good alternative out there?
The closest I found was Owntracks, but it doesn’t work for me for a couple of reasons. Primarily, it doesn’t tell me the places I’ve been, only the latitude/longitude. That isn’t helpful. I want to know I was at X or Y convenience store and when my last visit was. Secondly of course, the interface was extremely lacking and I didn’t like that it was split across two websites and an app. Why even have a map in the Android app if it doesn’t show my location data??
Jimmycakes@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Hell no bro if there was Google would have bought them for their data already
IronKrill@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
I see your point lol. Although I don’t get why there aren’t more offline/local alternatives. They would have no data to speak of.