I use the location tracking of Google Maps/Google Timeline constantly for work, and it’s exceedingly helpful to know when I was at certain cities, buildings, etcetera. Of course, this means I’m basically signing my soul away to Google. But I can’t really find any alternative location tracking apps, even though I would have thought there would be lots available. Are there any good alternatives out there?
The closest I found was Owntracks, but it doesn’t work for me for a couple of reasons. Primarily, it doesn’t tell me the places I’ve been, only the latitude/longitude. That isn’t helpful. I want to know I was at X or Y convenience store and when my last visit was. Secondly of course, the interface was extremely lacking and I didn’t like that it was split across two websites and an app. Why even have a map in the Android app if it doesn’t show my location data??
Home Assistant can record the position of a device tracker (e.g. a phone with GPS) and does reverse geocoding (coordinates to addresses). There’s also a “premises” attribute, but I’m not sure if that includes the types of places you’re looking for.
Here’s some more info: https://companion.home-assistant.io/docs/core/sensors#geocoded-location-sensor
I’m not aware of a nice way to browse these locations though, but at least the data would be there.