It's a shame really, I bet that much data would make for some good visuals.
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Would love to hear your thoughts!
The only suggestion for improvement I can offer is to think through if it makes sense to "renormalize" the heatmap when I move the map or zoom the map. The current "normalization" has two for me unexpected effects:
a) My home and office is not colored "warmer" than many other places in my home town, although I bet I spend 90% of my time in those two places, and
b) I can see that I've been e.g. to Vienna, but when I zoom in I can't see anything - presumably because I've spent so little time there compared to my home town.
Some sort of "renormalization" of the heatmap would probably "fix"/change that.
They claim to have optimized the app not to drain the battery life. I have been using it for over an year and I don't see an issue with my battery life.
It's amazing that I can zoom into a city that I've been to and nostalgically recount the story behind each location on the map. I can see this being a great storytelling aid that goes with your photo albums.
Will share images or data when I compile mine when I get the time.
This is pretty awesome, but could definitely use persistent data so we can just share the map. Could also use off-client/background processing - might be working on this piece soon...
I had 50MB of data, and it took at least one minute to process the JSON file.
