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Cake day: June 6th, 2025

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  • I’m on Linux everywhere at home except for my lounge family PC. It runs windows and Linux, but boots in to windows by default. That way when my kid or friends/family are using it, it’s familiar to them, but when I use it, I can boot it in to linux.

    It’s not even true dual booting. Rather, they’re each installed on their own dedicated drives, and I jump in to the bios to boot from Linux when I need it. It means they don’t really even have to coexist and break each other’s installs







  • I’ve got a question about how reitti calculates significant places/visits.

    I was thinking of adjust gps logger so that it doesn’t log points if they’re within 10m of the last point it logged. That will clear up the data when I’m at home or work, so that there is less of a random squiggle of location data. It will record me arriving at home, and leaving home, but not much in between.

    Will that impact how reitti calculates locations though? Is it looking at the number of points, or is it simply a matter of duration within a particular vicinity?


  • Having all of this data stored in a location I can control has been really good.

    But yesterday, it was pointed out to me that the API reitti provides means I have access to over a decades worth of location history that I can use to geotag my photo collection! That is a game changer. I’ve been trying to find a way to pull that information from google location history for a long time, and it turns out, you’ve created it!

    This is really valuable to me, so I want you to know just how much I appreciate the effort you’ve put in to making it. Thank you



  • Well, the last update seems to have cleared the queue, and all of my history from that 10 year import now shows, with trips and places identified!

    But now, it’s having issues with importing the new google format import. I’ve got a 34MB file there that goes back to 2017, and this data says that it has imported, but then never appears in my history.

    If it’s relevant, there is overlap in the data, as my 10 year takeout import went up to 2023, and my “new format” import starts in 2017 and went a couple of days ago. I changed my google account in 2017, but logged in to both on my phone simultaneously, so I was accruing location data on both accounts at the same time for a while before I turned it off on my old account.


  • Since I last commented, the queue has jumped from about 9000 outstanding items, to 15,000 outstanding items, and it appears that I have timelines for a large amount of my history now.

    However, the estimated time is still slowly creeping up (though only by a minute or two, despite adding 6000 more items to the queue).

    I haven’t uploaded anything manually that might have triggered the change in queue size.

    Is there any external calls made during processing this queue that might be adding latency?

    tl;dr - something is definitely happening