This article Meet the GPS artists running and cycling one creative canvas at a time caugyht my eye.
i thought that I would like to see just where in Bonavista I had walked/cycled/been driven over the past three years.
I do not want to spend hours joining a social network application and so on, but wonder if there is an easy way to locate, harvest, and process the data that is surely tracking the minute-by-minute position of my Android smart phone.
Thanks for any clues that can be followed by a novice.
Chris
Tracking my movements
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Re: Tracking my movements
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Re: Tracking my movements
Thanks Hans.
I could not get my laptop/google to tell me anything, but yesterday's AskWoody mentioned "a finder app such as Find My Phone or Life360". I took a quick look at both; one appears to be a social networking tool, with phone added in; the other found my phone. My phone was at Crewe's garage, a half a mile away on the road to Elliston. I last visited Elliston a year ago.
Nonetheless I managed to make my phone ring right beside me on the bed.
I want to pursue this further, but I have a feeling that despite Google knowing everything about me, an approach via an Android Ap is probably going to be better than a laptop-based application.
I suspect that I have left in place some sort of tracking barrier, and that I must break down the fences before everything works together to track my paths. For the past six months my travels have been well-defined - from home to Foodland and back, and from home to Swyers and back, so once I am set up, the map of my travels should be easy to verify.
Too I feel sure that I will be seeing accuracy to significantly less than half a mile!
Cheers, Chris
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Re: Tracking my movements
I turned on Google Tracking and now a red dot appears on the map on my TimeLine, unchanged for the past few days because it has been too cold to leave home.ChrisGreaves wrote: ↑07 Jun 2022, 11:52I suspect that I have left in place some sort of tracking barrier,
I played around with the two smart phones, and the old MOTO-X with an internet connection but no phone connection managed to make the LGK30 with a phone card ring, so in theory I can now locate the phone when I have left it on the couch, as BobH et al. and I are wont to do
Cheers, Chris
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