About Wanderings

Wanderings is a location tracking application that shows a heatmap of where you've been. It is low effort; just keep the Wanderings iPhone App running in the background on your phone and it will record where you are occasionally using GPS and other location methods. Then come to the website to see a heatmap of where you have been. We hope to run Wanderings for years.

Wanderings is privacy friendly; we don't keep a copy of your location data on our own server. Your locations are only stored in iCloud (requiring your password to access) and cached in your local browser for display. (In addition the Mapbox map service we use collects telemetry data, which you can disable.) The location tracker on the iPhone is designed to have very low impact on your battery; a few percent a day at most. We do not currently have an Android app but we are drag-and-drop compatible with GeoJSON and GPX output of various GPS tracking apps like Mendhak's GPSLogger.

Related products include Google Timeline, Fog of World, Strut, and OpenPaths. See also Strava's global heatmap.

Wanderings is a small side project by Brad Greenlee and Nelson Minar. If you have any questions please contact us on Twitter @wanderin_gs or email us at support@wanderin.gs.

Data Import & Export

You can export and import data from the web application. To export, open the menu in upper left and select 'Export your data' to save a GeoJSON file. To import, drag files on to the browser window. Supported formats include Google Timeline exports (via Google Takeout / Location History), GPX (including Strava), OpenPaths JSON, GeoJSON from GPSLogger for Android, and any GeoJSON data with a "ts" property (such as our export format). If you want support for another import format please tweet or mail us.

You can fully erase your data from the iCloud servers by selecting the “Erase iCloud data” option. This step is permanent, there is no way to recover erased data. Consider exporting a copy of your data to a file first for safekeeping.

Legal

The Website is provided "as is". The owner and its suppliers and licensors hereby disclaim all warranties of any kind, express or implied, including, without limitation, the warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. Neither the owner nor its suppliers and licensors makes any warranty that the Website will be error free or that access thereto will be continuous or uninterrupted. You understand that you download from, or otherwise obtain content or services through, the Website at your own discretion and risk.

Location data is particularly private. Our application collects and displays your location for you; that is its entire purpose. There is no warranty or guarantee that your location data is 100% safe from misuse, hacking, legal demands, or other uses.

Changelog

May 28 2019

Add import support for Mendhak's GPSLogger for Android

May 14 2019

Add support for deleting data from iCloud

Jan 12 2019

Time filtering via slider, also YQMWDHL hotkeys

Jan 4 2019

Updated third party libraries

Jan 23 2018

Data import via drag-and-drop

Jan 19 2018

Filter inaccurate points

Jan 15 2018

First public release