Open Google Timeline files in your browser
The file Google Maps saves when you export your Timeline. Open it right here on a map, the places you went and the journeys between them, a day at a time. Nothing leaves your device.
Or drop it anywhere on this page
What you'll see
Your Timeline opens on a map: the places you went as points and the journeys between them as lines, a day at a time or every day at once.
- A day at a time • Step from day to day, or see every day
- Visits • Where you stayed, when, and for how long
- Journeys • Walking, driving or by train, each in a color
- Export • Save as GPX, KML, GeoJSON or CSV
About Google Timeline
Google Maps kept a Timeline of where people's phones went from 2015, on Google's servers, and Takeout exported it as Location History. In 2024 Timeline moved onto the phones themselves, and its export moved with it: Android saves Timeline.json, and the iPhone's Google Maps location-history.json.
Both are JSON. The phones' list segments, each a visit to a place with its time and place ID, an activity from one place to another with its mode and distance, or a path of positions. Takeout's Records.json holds every position the phone noted, and Semantic Location History a file a month of place visits and activity segments.
Filepeek reads every kind into visits, journeys and paths on a map over OpenStreetMap, each journey colored by how you went. Pick a day, step to the next or the one before, or see every day at once. Visits show when you came and how long you stayed, the panel lists them all, and Export saves them as GPX, KML, GeoJSON or CSV.
Google Maps Timeline export
.json
Format
- MIME type
- application/json
- Made by
- Google Maps
- Released
- 2015
Inside the file
- Kept as
- JSON
- Visits
- A place, its time and how long
- Journeys
- From place to place, with the mode
- Paths
- Positions the phone noted
Opens in every browser
Filepeek opens Timeline exports on a map in Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari, years of them at once. On their own, browsers show the JSON as code.
- YouChromeOpens through Filepeek
- YouEdgeOpens through Filepeek
- YouFirefoxOpens through Filepeek
- YouSafariOpens through Filepeek
Apps that open Google Timeline
- WindowsNo app opens it • Google Maps on a phone imports it
- MacNo app opens it • Google Maps on a phone imports it
- iPhone and iPadGoogle Maps imports it
- AndroidGoogle Maps imports it
Questions
How do I export my Google Timeline?
On Android, open Settings, Location, Location services, Timeline, then Export Timeline data. On an iPhone, in Google Maps, open Your Timeline, the menu, Location and privacy settings, then Export Timeline data.
Does it open the old Takeout location history?
Yes. Records.json and the monthly files of Semantic Location History both open, each day's visits and journeys on the map.
Can I see a single day?
Yes. Pick it under the map, or step a day at a time, and the map fits that day. Every day shows them all.
Is my location history uploaded?
No. The file is read in your browser and stays on your device. The map under it is OpenStreetMap's, fetched as tiles through Filepeek's own server, which learns only the part of the world on screen.