Your Location History as a Travel Film

A free tool turns years of forgotten Google location data into a watchable travel film — privately, on your own computer, no uploads needed.

What it does

Google has been quietly collecting your location history for years — every trip, every city, every detour. Most people have never looked at it. This tool takes that data, which you can download for free from Google, and turns it into an actual travel film: timeline, footage assembled from your GPS trail, narration and all.

It ran on GitHub Trending for three days straight this week, which is unusual. Most tools get a spike and disappear. This one kept climbing.

What's worth noting for anyone thinking about privacy: it runs entirely on your own computer. Nothing gets sent to a server. Your movement history stays yours.

Why it caught our eye

There's something quietly lovely about this. Your data is already there, just sitting in a folder, doing nothing. This gives it a second life — not as a spreadsheet or a map, but as something you might actually want to watch.

For anyone running a travel brand, a hospitality business, or even documenting company retreats — the idea of automatically generated visual stories from real location trails is worth sitting with.

Words worth knowing

Google Takeout — A free Google service that lets you download a copy of all your own data: photos, emails, location history, and more. You own it; you just never asked for it.

Runs locally — The tool works on your own computer, not in the cloud. Nothing leaves your machine.

GitHub Trending — A daily leaderboard of the most-noticed open-source projects on GitHub. Holding a spot for three days means real, sustained interest — not a fluke.

If you've never downloaded your Google Takeout data, it's worth a look just to see what's there. You might be surprised how much of your life is already documented.