Re: Location History is moving to on-phone timeline

On 2024-11-21 15:43, micky wrote:

In comp.mobile.android, on Sun, 17 Nov 2024 10:02:17 -0500, micky
<NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> wrote:
 

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Yet the Timeline knows I was there and the name of the kiosk, Beyoutiful
Store.  Again, I had forgotten that name.  (A lot of the stores in the
malls had English names.  I guess like in the US, a lot of stores have
French names.)  But I only spent a couple minutes there, since they had
souvenirs but no hats.  Why did they record it?  Maybe... I had found
the place in my phone and then gone there with the phone on but without
navigation.  Maybe timeline put 2 and 2 together and listed that as a
place I went.  Then I went to a movie and I didn't use navigation. I
asked directions to that too, and it knew that too, by name.

There are two methods it can use: WiFi names, and bluetooth navigation points. I don't know the exact name, but they can setup bluetooth devices inside malls so that navigation works inside.

 Although it didn't know that I went to a bank in that same mall to try
to get money from an ATM or that I ate in the food court (and was there
for a long time. I called a friend in Georgia from there). Or that I
couldn't find my car and had to ask the staff to find it for me, and
wait while they looked. (Not my fault. I noted where it was in relation
to the glass-enclosed room on the parking level with desiccators and an
elevator, but didn't realize there were 3 such rooms (a big mall).)
 It knows that I spent 11 minutes driving there, 6+ hours there, and 19
minutes driving back to the hotel.
 It knows when I'm on a plane.  Is that a deduction because I'm moving so
fast???

Probably. On one trip of mine it knew, on another it did not. Go figure.

 It knows when I'm home all day, but it gives the google maps Home
address, which is two townhouses away from my real address (for security
purposes). That means it "rounds" my location, that since I was so near
home (44 feet) and it was for 22 hours, it figured I must be at home. It
says from 00:11 - 22:19. I must have turned my phone on at midnight and
forgotten to turn it off.    Every time I go home, it gives my google
maps address, 2 doors away.  Another deduction.
 It knows when I visited a friend and I'm sure I didn't use navigation
but I did have the phone on and probably the map application running.
And it knows when I stopped for lunch at a drive-through, and I know
that was spur of the moment, no navigation involved, and only lasted by
them from 16:04 to 16:12, yet they have the name of the place,
 Another day I went to another friend and it just shows a straight line
to her house when the streets require a bunch of zig zag (zig zag which
shows on some other days.) 

It is not tracking continuously, but at intervals.
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Cheers, Carlos.