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PSA: Before you delete your location history, please consider downloading it for personal use later, via Google Takeout. Several tools (that you host) may make that data useful/interesting to you (especially for trips/vacations/events).

Would you mind elaborating on the “several tools” that you’re referring to? I’d like to learn more about this.

There are a couple tools that will extrapolate your location from a bunch of location sources and apply it, to, for example, images and videos that don't have direct GPS metadata. The only tool I've used is https://exiftool.org/geotag.html

(I'm a huge fan of ExifTool: I wrote both the ruby and node wrappers for it!)

FWIW I will be adding this location extrapolation to PhotoStructure at some point soon, as all my dSLR images don't have GPS tags.

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