Google applications are usually the most used in Spainbut some like Google Maps are Titans in practically all Western countries. Only in Asia there are alternatives, mostly due to limitations (China), or by the presence of local applications that like users in certain countries for having specific functions (Japan).
This makes the use of this app much further than being a mere GPS navigation application. In addition to approaching what a social network is, it has also been used to check where we have been at all times whenever we take the mobile with us.
But recently Google began to announce that it was going to change the way in which the history of locations or chronology would behave. Due to privacy issues, the company will go from storing that data in the cloud in an unlimited way to do so on the mobile And only for a few months. Thus, we will lose the ability to verify in which places we have been over the years.
Luckily there is still an application that allows us to check what places we have been, provided we have taken some photo there. That’s why It is perfect to know where we have traveled, either for work or for pleasurebecause it is exceptionally rare not to take a photo today when we leave our city.
We refer to Google photos that, at least for now, keeps the heat map in the cloud, a function that geolocates the images we have stored in our account, although obviously It does not give us the same level of detail we had on Google Mapsthat he was able to tell us the location at all times.
Google Heat Map Photos
The free android
To be able to look at the map where the photos appear it is important have activated geolocation in the camera app. This is what allows the EXIF, the information section of an image, to have the GPS coordinates of the mobile. Then we just have to go to the Google photos app, open one of the images and slide up.
The details of it will appear. Among those details there is a map that will be expanded if we click on. Then we can move for it to check what places we have been and seeing the photos we have taken in each of those places.
