Since I was in high school I have been exploring new places and tracking all of the cool spots I found. Recently I have come across Jeremy Maluf's project to walk every street, trail, and park on the planet, and I have taken on the challenge!
Although I have been casually tracking where I have been for years, I want to now start being more systematic in my approach to tracking and keeping record of where I have been. This will be a continual work in progress but I want to use this as a starting point to see where my starting point is and to keep track of this side quest.
Data Collection
First I need to figure out what data I currently have available and create a system for keeping track of this data. I have been using Google Timeline as I am a big fan of google maps but unfortunately the web version was removed some time ago and now there is a worse version that is only accessible on mobile devices. The current sources of data I have are the past 18 months of data from google timeline, and activity data from Strava.
My main addition to my current setup is using an app called Arc Timeline 4 this will stay running on my phone and will keep track of everywhere that I have been.
For putting the data all together there are a few websites that help out with this such as City Strides and wandrer but these have expensive subscriptions and I wanted to make something that I have more control over.
I made this page to help with this challenge. Right now this page does the following:
- Create a single file
location_logfor all location data - Import all of your location data to the single file
- Visualize the data on a map and show stats about it
New York City
I was born about an hour away from NYC and I currently live here for grad school. I have a good amount of miles already walked here but I am now making an effort to walk every street in the city starting with Manhattan.
Iowa
San Francisco
Sydney
