I realize that google maps timeline feature is pretty antithetical to the way the average user here wants to do things, but I really like it as a way to easily go back and see where I went a particular day, or the last time I visited a particular place. It’s also the most common way for me to notice a road that’s missing from their map, because it can’t figure out the route that I took.

Obviously, I’d really like to take more ownership of my data, but I have yet to find any OSM based apps that will just randomly get location in the background and write it down. Does anyone have suggestions?

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    There’s usually two parts, the data tracker and the visualizer, and they often can be mixed and matched or come as a pair. The most common loggers are OwnTrack and GPSLogger

    I used PhoneTrack (through NextCloud) for a bit. I think the great thing about it was you could edit points. If there was a stray data reading that was way off you could (re)move it.

    Traccar comes as a server/client pair but this is more aligned for commercial vehicle tracking.

    There’s a really cool visualizer, Orion, but it’s no longer maintained.
    https://github.com/LINKIWI/orion-web

    And the same for Time Travel Tracker.
    https://github.com/redfish64/TinyTravelTracker