Technology is always with us. Sometimes it’s our personal data, sometimes about our location, sometimes about what we like and don’t like. In short, there is a device that knows everything and it is always with us. Now, there is the “heat map” on the agenda, which is extracted from Google Maps. So what is a heatmap? Who is this data useful for? Here are the details…
The places you visit most often appear on your heatmap!
Android smartphones and tablets, as well as iPhones and iPads with Google Maps, constantly send your location data to Google servers, unless you’ve turned it off in your privacy settings. Google Maps, on the other hand, uses this location data for real-time display of traffic and traffic jam alerts. In other words, Google will show you the traffic jam according to how many different people on the same road has received location data.
Of course, you can see this data yourself. If you share data with Google, you can see where you are on a timeline, on what date and at what time. In addition to providing you with a chart about this, Google also gives you the coordinates of our location minute by minute. You can also see which road or route you made the change between the two locations.
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As for the heatmap, this is a feature offered to you by a 3rd party application rather than Google. With this application called Location History Visualizer, you can create your own Google heatmap. In order to do this, you need to have downloaded the chart created with the data collected by Google to your computer.
After you download the chart with the data, you upload this data to the application called Location History Visualizer. Then the app starts creating your heatmap. On this map, you can see the places you go most often, the roads you use most often, etc. You can see all the data about the map. Of course, everything is fine so far. But there is another dimension to the job.
You need to share your Google data with the app. This will reveal your heatmap. In short, you are sharing your Google Maps data with a 3rd party application with your own consent. The point to be noted here is that you are performing the entire transaction with your own consent. So what do you think? Don’t forget to give your opinion in the comments section…