Ask HN: How to track my own personal data as detailed as Google?

2 points by yesimapro 6y ago ↗ HN

It is no surprise that google and other big co's are tracking us. A snippet in this video[1] posted yesterday where (looked like JSON data) was being pushed to googles servers on when someone was walking vs. running etc.

How can I track my own data as detailed as google? I want to know when i'm walking vs driving, heatmap of where I walk everyday, and a breakdown of websites I visit/how much time I spend on youtube etc. Again, I only want this info for myself for personal growth and better tracking of my time. I also know that a lot of different apps could do this, but I want to have everything under one hood, built by me. What would be the best way to go about this?

*Advanced beginner in python if that helps

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0G6mUyIgyg

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duiker101 6y ago ↗

Unfortunately I haven't found a way of detecting activities, but I started recording all my locations with GPSLogger[1] to GPX and store them on my server. So now I need to either find or create a way of navigating/searching/visualizing/analyzing all my history. I haven't found how to do that yet but at least I have the raw data to do it.

[1] https://gpslogger.app/

yesimapro 6y ago ↗

Awesome, I will check it out and report back.

mtmail 6y ago ↗

With https://owntracks.org/ (open source) you can send the location data to your own server.

Awesome, thank you!