Google Location History (GLH) mobility dataset

This is a GPS dataset acquired from Google. Google tracks the user’s device location through Google Maps, which also works on Android devices, the iPhone, and the web. It’s possible to see the Timeline from the user’s settings in the Google Maps app on Android or directly from the Google Timeline Website. It has detailed information such as when an individual is walking, driving, and flying. Such functionality of tracking can be enabled or disabled on demand by the user directly from the smartphone or via the website. Google has a Take Out service where the users can download all their data or select from the Google products they use the data they want to download. The dataset contains 120,847 instances from a period of 9 months or 253 unique days from February 2019 to October 2019 from a single user. The dataset comprises a pair of (latitude, and longitude), and a timestamp. All the data was delivered in a single CSV file. As the locations of this dataset are well known by the researchers, this dataset will be used as ground truth in many mobility studies. Please cite the following papers in order to use the datasets: T. Andrade, B. Cancela, and J. Gama, "Discovering locations and habits from human mobility data," Annals of Telecommunications, vol. 75, no. 9, pp. 505–521, 2020. 10.1007/s12243-020-00807-x (DOI) and T. Andrade, B. Cancela, and J. Gama, "From mobility data to habits and common pathways," Expert Systems, vol. 37, no. 6, p. e12627, 2020. 10.1111/exsy.12627 (DOI)