I am an information hoarder and liked the Foursquare swarm app for checking into restaurants and other interesting places when I travel, because I love seeing the pins on the map of the places I have been and remembering places later. I have scripts running to download my check-ins and store them in a self hosted map.
But I obviously don’t need to keep giving them my location data. Are there any self hosted alternatives with that kind of international database of places?
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For tracking my own location, I have tried out Traccar once. It works without any foreign data stores.
It also integrates well with Home Assistant and supports OBD2 devices, which is a very nice bonus.
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Brilliant, love these options. I think Dawarich looks fun, and really powerful data gathering that is mapped to places and summarized, which is very cool
I’ve heard that immich and other picture-organizing software can will something like this?
Immich is pretty good for this if you take pictures at each location. It has a global map that shows all your photos with a heatmap-style display and a drawer that shows a grid of the photos within your viewport as you can and zoom around. It doesn’t seem like you can view a specific album on the map currently but you can at least filter the map to favorites or a date range.
I was going to say the same. It’s wonderful.
Organic maps imports all business locations from google maps Afaik. Just import your own kml file to drop the pins. Even supports multiple different location markers. Live position tracking included and navigation if you ever want to return. No self hosting required at all.
Organic Maps solely uses OpenStreetMap.
I don’t know of such an alternative. A quick solution would be to use something like GeoNotes to take geolocated notes.
As far as a self-hosted solution goes, I’d just like to point out that you wouldn’t need a self-hosted database of places. You could query Ouverture (or Google, OSM, etc.) for places near you, and you’d just need to store the check-in on your server with a basic API. This is an interesting problem, and not super hard to implement.
How about Dawarich?
https://github.com/Freika/dawarich
I haven’t used it myself, but I have it in the backlog of things to try out
I got a Dawarich instance running yesterday, so far it is pretty good. Getting it running over SSL was an absolute nightmare but now that it’s working the tracking is pretty powerful.
Every single (opensource) automated location tracker I’ve tried drained battery to the point where it is borderline useful.
Your best bet is to use something like Immich like others mentioned but it lacks specific business data like Google Timeline has, which I don’t think it’s possible with anything else.
So many good options! Ya’ll are the best
