There are two types of data available for download: You can view there your location history for a specific time period, manage your Timeline settings, or export and download your location history data. On the Google Maps website, you can view your Timeline, which shows an estimate of places you may have been and routes you may have taken based on your Location History.

Location History is a Google Account–level setting and you can turn it on or off at any time in “Location History” section of the Google Account settings. And most of these almost 3 billion Android users have active the Google Location History service, which is used to track the user’s location when the phone is turned on and receiving a mobile signal (GPS signal is not necessary). About 84% of the total number of smartphone users, use a phone with the Android operating system from Google (about 16% use the iOS operating system from Apple). Today, there are about three and a half billion smartphone users worldwide, almost half the global population. If you wanted to come up with your own solution for V6, check out the import/export class in the Pro plugin folder.People all over the world are tracking their location with their cell phones more and more often. I’d like to support KML at some point as well but there are no plans to build this into the initial release. CSV is also supported, however I’d recommend XML. If you’re only looking to update once every 6 months or so, and you can wait til August / September for WP Google Maps Version 7, then I have coded a full blown XML importer / exporter that would be a 2 minute job to build into an automatic updater. If you’d like an example of the CSV layout, please export some test data from the plugin and use the same format as is produced there.

I could certainly convert the rest for you given the files. We do have a beta KML import which only supports markers at the moment. In addition, Google uses caching there so it can be really quite fast and not too bandwidth intensive. I would think you’d hit these limits before you put any serious strain on a server, even on shared hosting. I don’t know if you’re aware but Google has restrictions on the number and size of KML files you can pass to it.

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