Hello, I’m looking for a good tool to selfhost some kind of location history similar to Google’s one. To have some data I can test the tools with, I merged every of my bicylce and hiking tours to one GPX file containing 7000km worth of travel. Then I tried this tool, but it really lags with so much data and every move and every zoom takes some seconds to load. Next I tried the “Phonetrack” app on my nextcloud instance, but this as well lags and I have to activate every track manually and they are color coded. I really like the connection between the phonetrack app on my Android and the nextcloud app, but I am afraid that I’ll eventually run into the same performance problem when I gathered enough data. I’ve seen that theres OwnTracks, but it seems you have to set up your own server and I don’t want to pay extra next to my nextcloud subscription. Do you know of any kind of location history tool I can use that can handle big amounts of data?
I’m using PhoneTrack with NextCloud for 24x7 tracking just like Google History.
You just start an activity and just leave it going. It syncs to NextCloud “live”.
Battery drain is minimal (much like, say, WireGuard VPN).
The tracking part is great, but I think I’ll eventually run into perfomance problems when the files get too big. How long has it been running now/how big is you gpx file? And do you just use one single session or eventually start a new one?