Today’s mashup is one you can create with your Google location Data. Assuming you have an Android phone and haven’t turned off location tracking, you can download your data then use this free heatmap tool from the folks at Modern Production Concepts Software get get your results.
Of course, you are taking all of that data a private company is keeping on you, and submitting it to yet another company so there’s a lot of trust involved here. I’ll leave the decision making up to you.
That being said, Lifehacker has some pretty good instructions despite not mentioning that the site they link to is for the paid service which hides the link to the free service near the bottom of the page.
And yes, I do feel like I live on a 50 mile stretch of I-80.
Michael Sauers is currently the Director of Technology for Do Space in Omaha, NE. Michael has been training librarians in technology for the past twenty years and has also been a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, serials cataloger, technology consultant, and bookseller since earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany’s School of Information Science and Policy. Michael has also written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and his fourteenth book, Emerging Technologies: A Primer for Librarians (w/ Jennifer Koerber) was published in May 2015 and more books are on the way. In his spare time he blogs at travelinlibrarian.info, runs The Collector’s Guide to Dean Koontz Web site, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
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