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Why Self-Host? 10 months ago

The entire planet's worth reverse geocoding data is ~120gb. The map tiles file for whole planet is also ~120gb, and they both are precompiled, so you don't need hundreds of gbs of RAM to run your local planet. It's easier than you probably think nowadays. Not mobile-size, but local server-size

Looks awesome and I love the approach! About a year ago, I went through pretty much the same process and built Dawarich, although it's only now I'm starting touching the topic of sharing location publicly, not just recording it for further visualization.

Great work!

It depends on how detailed you want your location history to be and also on how you configure your mobile app. Both Overland and Owntracks allow enabling and disabling location tracking. And what they have tracked is being sent to Dawarich, so it's up to client's config.