One post tagged with "google-timeline"

So you've exported your Google Timeline data. Maybe you heard about the shutdown and panic-downloaded everything. Maybe you just wanted to see what Google knows about you. Either way, you now have a ZIP file sitting on your desktop, and you're staring at a bunch of JSON thinking "what am I looking at?"

I maintain Dawarich, which imports all of these formats, so I've spent more time than I'd like reading Google's location JSON. Here's everything I know about what's inside your export — every field, every quirk, every format Google has shipped over the years.