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Is there a self hosted solution to aggregating and viewing this data?

I'm slowly moving away from Google and other companies clouds where I can. Would be nice to take this data out in takeout and explore it locally, but it's such a useful feature for looking back on my travels.

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I use Arc, a paid app to track my location that stores this data on my device and only on my device. It has a good but not great UI to explore this on device, make corrections on transport types which are by default inferred by machine learning, mark and manage points of interest. The UI is somewhat complex so it's not the easiest to use, but it's easy enough after a while.

Since you explicitly mentioned moving away from Google, I'll note that the app has an opt-in integration with Google Places. You have to click a "Search Google Places" button to activate it so you won't accidentally use it.

It's self-hosted in the sense that it's just an app.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/arc-app-location-activity/id10...

Thanks, I’ve been looking for something like this since forever. OwnTracks is the thing I previously heard about, but at the time it required you to set up your own mqtt server for data ingestion. I’d rather not have to maintain something like that.

I use OwnTracks. You don't need an MQTT broker (anymore?), though that is one of the options. A HTTP server works just fine, and there's an app (ot-recorder) that will handle saving your location history to disk.

I modified an open source GPX recording app called Trackbook to turn it into a 24/7 recorder, and I wrote about it here:

https://voussoir.net/writing/obsessed_with_gpx

I have a few recent commits in my repository that I haven't put into a versioned APK yet though.

The output GPX files can be viewed on the PC with JOSM:

https://josm.openstreetmap.de/

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