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Cake day: June 9th, 2023

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  • Yeah, i think my data set is around 14mb when i load it all (and it loads all points to the browser). that is a bit of a loading lag, but once loaded it is ok.

    The other issues is when you zoom out, you cannot pan around. you have to do clever scrolling (zoom) in and out to get to where you want.

    I think it should be reasonabley easy to do the server side updates, but i cannot javscript front end to save my life!



  • As far as changed your life, there are not too many that i really love, that made a massive difference to how i do things. But there is one:

    Paperless_ngx

    ALL of my paper work, receipts, transcripts, tax, shares, council rates. Everything goes in there. We no longer have paper lieing everywhere (well, my wife is another matter, still keeps grocery shopping reciepts…). when i get soimething in the mail, i used the paperless app to “scan” it, upload it, then bin the paper.

    An actual life change that i didn’t know i needed.


  • Unfortunately there are no fantastic options. But it is a three part problem.

    1. Server to collect, store and serve the location data.

    2. App to send the data to the server

    3. ui to visualise the data.

    There are some larger collection servers, but nothing that provided the data back in a way that i wanted. I currently use a custom script some created, whic provides a number of API endpoints. I will rustle up the link.

    There are a number of apps, I use phonetrack. Defaults to next cloud formants but is easily editable.

    The UI is where a lot of this fall down. I have phone always recording location, so tracks is no good for me, I wanted to use something like a heat map. The script I talked about includes a simple heatmap using leaflet and openstreetmaps. This fits my ise case much better, but is still not ideal.

    I ultimately want to pre process the data to reduce the size of the data set that gets sent to client, to reduce the lag time. Good luck though, as it is a fun and challenging problem!

    (I’ll upload some screenshots when off mobile)

    https://github.com/gue-ni/location_tracker