Turn your Google Maps Timeline into a travel story.

Why turn location history into a travel video?

A raw location history export is thousands of coordinate rows, accurate, but meaningless to look at. Replayed on an animated map, the same data becomes a story: a year of travel compressed into thirty seconds, a honeymoon route for an anniversary post, a cycling season, or an ordinary week that quietly covered surprising ground.

A rendered travel video is also the safest way to share location data. Instead of handing anyone the underlying file, you publish only the moving route you chose, with the canvas, palette, pace, and trimmed endpoints under your control.

How this visualizer works

Open your export and the parser detects the format automatically, Records.json, timelineObjects, semanticSegments, Location History arrays, or generic coordinate lists. Invalid points are dropped, dense tracks are thinned for smooth playback, and the route is projected onto a stylized backdrop drawn entirely on canvas.

Press play and the route animates with a moving marker, a live date, and accumulating distance. Export records the canvas right in your browser, MP4 where the codec is available, WebM elsewhere, with no render queue, no watermark, and no account.

Private by architecture, not by promise

Most online map tools upload your file or fetch tiles from a map server, so a third party learns your coordinates. This visualizer does neither: parsing, animation, and video encoding all run inside the browser tab, and the backdrop is generated locally instead of requested from a tile provider.

Close the tab and the working data is gone. Nothing is stored on a server, no account ties the file to an identity, and the optional endpoint trim keeps home and workplace out of the finished video. The privacy policy is short because there is little to disclose.