您的“Google 我的活动”页面(Google My Activity page)中有一个区域特别有用；你的位置历史(location history)。它很有用，因为如果激活它，它会跟踪您从第一次开始使用手机使用Google 帐户以来访问过的每个位置。(Google account)
如果您使用Android多年，这是一个令人印象深刻的信息数据库，可以真正派上用场。在本文中，您将详细了解如何管理您的Google 位置(Google location)历史记录以及如何利用其跟踪的信息。
确保您的Google 地图位置记录处于活动状态(Google Maps Location History Is Active)
在您可以使用Location history之前，您需要确保它确实已启用。
1. 访问Google My Activity并登录您的 Google 帐户。
2. 在主页上，在右侧窗格中选择位置历史记录。(Location History)
3. 在位置活动控制页面上(Location Activity Controls page)，确保启用位置历史(Location History)切换。
今后，当您携带Android 手机(Android phone)访问位置时，手机会将您的位置报告回Google服务器。这些地点以及您访问的时间和日期(time and date)将被收集。
虽然这确实会引起某些用户的隐私问题，但请记住，您是唯一可以访问此信息的人。您将始终需要登录您的Google 帐户(Google account)才能访问它。
但是，如果您是对Google(Google)访问您的信息有严重担忧的人之一，您可能会重新考虑启用Location History。但是，如果您决定禁用它，您将无法利用下面描述的任何用途。
1. 提醒您去过的地方
要开始查看您的位置历史记录(location history)，请在“活动控制”页面上选择“管理活动”。(Manage activity)
您将在左上角看到带有时间线控件的地图。(timeline control)在此时间线控件(timeline control)中，您可以使用您的Google 帐户(Google Account)搜索多年前的Android 设备(Android device)。
如果您记得访问过某个地点，例如您喜欢的主题公园(theme park)或餐厅，但您只能记住您访问过的粗略时间范围(time frame)，则此时间线控制(timeline control)可以提供帮助。
开始使用年份(Year)下拉菜单，然后选择您记得访问的年份。
这将生成您在该年中进行的旅行的列表。您甚至可以使用月份(Month)和日期(Day)下拉菜单来更多地关注您访问的时间范围。或者，如果您确切知道您访问该位置的日期，则只需从垂直蓝条列表中选择日期。
一旦您使用上述任何技术来确定您的旅行日期并选择它，您将看到完整的旅行时间表。
这将包括您在旅行过程中停留的每个地点。您还将在地图上将整条路线显示为一条蓝线。
向下滚动(Scroll)时间线，直到找到您想要记住的位置。这可能是餐厅、公园、远足径或您真正喜欢的任何其他地点。
时间线中的各个位置标记(location marker)将为您提供该位置的名称以及您到达那天的时间。
找到您想记住的位置后，选择右侧的三个点，然后选择“地点详细信息(Place details)”以查看 Google 为该企业或位置(business or location)提供的列表。
注意(Note)：如果您发现Google从未记录过您最近访问过且您想记住的位置，您可以将其添加到您的旅行详细信息中。为此，只需选择您访问过的附近位置右侧的三个点，然后选择添加停靠点(Add a stop)的选项。请记住，这仅在您停留的区域之一有多个地点或企业可以访问时才可用。
时间线控件和您的时间线历史记录是重温过去旅行的完美方式。这是计划再次前往该地区并前往您第一次去时非常喜欢的相同地方的绝佳选择。
2. 快速访问最近的旅行
如果您最近出差，您甚至不必使用时间线控件。在位置活动窗口(location activity window)的底部，您将看到您最近的一次旅行，并在其下方看到更多旅行(More Trips)链接，以查看您最近的更多旅行。
当您选择此项时，底行将默认为当前年份。您将看到您进行的每次旅行的框列表以及旅行的日期范围(date range)。
您可以选择其中任何一个行程来查看行程详情视图。
在行程详情页面上，您会在地图下方的最后一行看到行程中每一天的列表。您可以选择其中任何一个来放大该特定日期的旅行详细信息。
如果您刚刚旅行并需要(trip and need)联系您访问过的任何企业以索取收据或以其他方式跟进，这非常有用。这也是与家人一起回顾旅行并记住所有内容的有趣方式你们一起做的有趣的事情。
3. 查看您最近去过的所有地方(Been)
还有一种快速方法不仅可以访问最近的地点，还可以访问从最近到较旧旅行的所有地点。
您可以通过选择底行左侧的红色框来访问此列表，您可以在其中查看时间轴中的位置总数。
当您选择此项时，您将首先看到您最近访问过的位置的列表。使用底部的滚动条(scroll bar)向右移动并滚动(right and scroll)浏览这些位置。
如果您继续向右滚动，您会看到标题为您去过的所有地方(All the places you’ve been)的部分。这是一个可以追溯到更早的列表。您滚动的越往右，行程列表的时间越早。
如果您在过去一两年内旅行并希望节省时间而不是使用时间线控制框(timeline control box)，则此底部滚动条列表(scrollbar listing)非常理想。通过快速滚动，您可以轻松找到几年前 您去黄石国家公园的那次旅行。(Yellowstone National Park)
4.设置位置突出显示电子邮件
Google 地图位置记录(Google Maps Location History)设置中有一项功能可让您启用定期电子邮件更新。这些更新将作为亮点出现在您的收件箱中，其中包含您最近的旅行和去过的地方。
如果您想在您的电子邮件帐户(email account)中存储这样的概览，可以轻松设置这些电子邮件亮点。
在您的位置记录窗口(Location History window)中，选择地图底部的齿轮图标。从弹出菜单中选择时间线设置。(Timeline settings)
这将打开一个包含几个选项的窗口。
- Google 相册(Google Photos)：您在旅途中拍摄并存储在Google 相册中的所有照片(Google Photos)都会在您查看该行程时间(trip timeline)线时出现在您的时间线中。
- 时间线电子邮件(Timeline emails)：每当您的时间线更新了新行程时，您都会收到一封电子邮件，其中列出了该行程的亮点。
时间线电子邮件选项也是提醒已自动更新到时间线的任何新内容的好方法。这样，如果您实际上不想记录该行程中的任何内容，则可以进入并删除您所做的各个站点。
5.使用保存的地方
您还会注意到设置弹出菜单中有一个选项来管理您的个人位置(Manage your personal places)。这将带您进入Google 地图窗口(Google Maps window)，您可以在其中管理所有已保存的地点。
这包括您创建的任何地图列表、您附加标签的地点以及您保存或下载的地图。
“已访问(Visited)”选项卡将显示您最近访问过的地点的快速列表。这些是记录到您的Google 位置历史(Google Location History)记录中的相同位置。
这是从Google 地图(Google Maps)中查看您最近的时间线条目的好地方。这也是一种从Google 地图(Google Maps)访问您的位置时间线(Location timeline)的快速方法，而无需记住指向“我的活动(My Activity)”页面的链接。
谷歌地图位置记录(Google Maps Location History)很有用
许多人担心让谷歌存储(Google store)您使用移动设备访问过的每个位置的隐私后果。但是，如果您为您的Google 帐户(Google account)维护一个出色的密码并使用双重身份验证，那么您真的没有什么可担心的。
您的Google 地图位置记录(Google Maps Location history)是回忆过去旅行信息的好方法。您将能够更轻松地重游您喜爱的美妙地方，并记录您的旅行，以便您可以随时在记忆(memory lane)中旅行。
Google Maps Location History: 5 Useful Things You Can Do With It
Τhere is an area in your Google My Activity page that’s especially useful; your location history. It’s useful because, if activated, it keeps track of every location you’ve visited ever since you first started using your Google account with a mobile phone.
If you’ve used Android for many years, this is an impressive database of information that can really come in handy. In this article, you’ll learn more about how to manage your Google location history and how to make use of the information it tracks.
Ensure Your Google Maps Location History Is Active
Before you can use your Location history, you need to make sure that it’s actually enabled.
1. Visit Google My Activity and log into your Google account.
2. On the main page, select Location History in the right pane.
3. On the Location Activity Controls page, make sure that the Location History toggle is enabled.
Going forward, as you visit locations while carrying your Android phone, the phone will report your location back to Google servers. Those locations as well as the time and date of your visit will get collected.
While this does cause privacy concerns for some users, keep in mind that you’re the only person who will ever have access to this information. You will always need to log into your Google account to access it.
However, if you’re one of those people who have serious concerns about Google accessing your information, you might reconsider enabling Location History. However, if you decide to disable it, you won’t be able to take advantage of any of the uses for it described below.
1. Be Reminded of Places You’ve Visited
To get started with viewing your location history, select Manage activity on the Activity Controls page.
You’ll see a map with a timeline control at the upper left. This timeline control is where you can search back as many years as you had an Android device with your Google Account.
If you remember visiting a location, like a theme park or a restaurant you loved, but you can only remember the rough time frame you visited, this timeline control can help.
Start off using the Year dropdown and select the year you remember visiting.
This will produce a list of trips you took during that year. You can even use the Month and Day dropdowns to focus more on the timeframe of your visit. Or just select the day from the list of vertical blue bars if you know exactly what day you visited that location.
Once you use any of the techniques above to identify the day of your trip and select it, you’ll see a complete timeline of the trip.
This will include every single location you stopped at during the course of your travels. You’ll also see the entire route as a blue line on the map.
Scroll down the timeline until you spot the location you wanted to remember. This may be a restaurant, park, hiking trail, or any other spot you really liked.
The individual location marker in the timeline will give you the name of that location as well as the time on that day that you arrived.
Once you find the location you wanted to remember, select the three dots on the right and select Place details to see Google’s listing for that business or location.
Note: If you notice that Google never logged a location you visited recently that you want to remember, you can add it to your trip details. To do this, just select the three dots to the right of the nearby location you visited and select the option to Add a stop. Keep in mind this is only available if one of the areas you stopped at had multiple locations or businesses to visit.
The timeline controls and your timeline history are a perfect way to revisit past trips you went on. This is a great option to plan another trip to the area and go to those same places you visited that you loved so much the first time you went.
2. Quickly Access Very Recent Trips
If you’ve gone on a trip very recently, you don’t even have to use the timeline controls. At the bottom of the location activity window you’ll see the most recent trip you went on, and a More Trips link below it to see more of your recent trips.
When you select this, the bottom row will default to the current year. You’ll see a list of boxes for each trip you’ve gone on along with the date range of your trip.
You can select any one of these trips to see the trip details view.
On the trip details page, you’ll see a listing of each day of your trip in the bottom row under the map. You can select any of these to zoom into trip details for that particular day.
This is really useful if you’ve just gone on a trip and need to contact any of the businesses you visited to ask for a receipt or otherwise follow-up.It’s also a fun way to review the trip with your family and remember all of the fun things you did together.
3. See All Most Recent Places You’ve Been
There’s also a quick way to access not only the most recent places, but all of the places you’ve been sorted from most recent to older trips.
You can access this list by selecting the red box on the left of the bottom row, where you can see a total number of places in your timeline.
When you select this you’ll first see a listing of the most recent locations you’ve visited. Use the scroll bar at the bottom to move to the right and scroll through those locations.
If you keep scrolling to the right you’ll see a section titled All the places you’ve been. This is a list that goes much further back in time. The further to the right you scroll, the further back in time the listing of trips is.
This bottom scrollbar listing is ideal if you’ve taken a trip within the last year or two and want to save time rather than using the timeline control box. With a quick scroll you could easily find that trip you took to Yellowstone National Park a couple of years ago.
4. Set Up Location Highlight Emails
There’s a feature in the Google Maps Location History settings that’ll let you enable regular email updates. These updates will come to your inbox as highlights featuring your most recent trips and places you’ve visited.
If you’d like to store an overview like this in your email account, it’s easy to set up these email highlights.
In your Location History window, select the gear icon at the bottom of the map. Select Timeline settings from the popup menu.
This will open a window with a couple of options.
- Google Photos: Any photos you’ve taken during your trip and stored in Google Photos will appear in your timeline whenever you view that trip timeline.
- Timeline emails: Any time your timeline gets updated with a new trip, you’ll receive an email listing the highlights of that trip.
The timeline emails option is also a great way to get a reminder of any new content that has been automatically updated to your timeline. This way if there’s anything in that trip that you actually don’t want logged, you can go in and delete individual stops you made.
5. Using Saved Places
You’ll also notice an option in the settings pop-up menu to Manage your personal places. This will take you to the Google Maps window where you can manage all of your saved places.
This includes any map lists you’ve created, places you’ve attached a label to, and maps you’ve saved or downloaded.
The Visited tab will show you a quick list of the most recent places you’ve visited. These are the same locations logged to your Google Location History.
This is a great place to see your most recent timeline entries from within Google Maps. It’s also a fast way to access your Location timeline from Google Maps, without having to remember the link to your My Activity page.
Google Maps Location History Is Useful
Many people are concerned about the privacy ramifications of letting Google store every single location you ever visit with your mobile device. However, if you maintain an excellent password for your Google account and use two-factor authentication, you really don’t have anything to worry about.
Your Google Maps Location history is a great way to recall information from your past trips. You’ll be able to more easily revisit wonderful places you loved, and keep a record of your trips so that you can travel down memory lane whenever you like.
