For tracking my own location, I have tried out Traccar once. It works without any foreign data stores.
this post was submitted on 05 May 2025
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It also integrates well with Home Assistant and supports OBD2 devices, which is a very nice bonus.
Organic maps imports all business locations from google maps Afaik. Just import your own kml file to drop the pins. Even supports multiple different location markers. Live position tracking included and navigation if you ever want to return. No self hosting required at all.
I've heard that immich and other picture-organizing software can will something like this?
I was going to say the same. It's wonderful.
How about Dawarich?
https://github.com/Freika/dawarich
I haven't used it myself, but I have it in the backlog of things to try out
I got a Dawarich instance running yesterday, so far it is pretty good. Getting it running over SSL was an absolute nightmare but now that it’s working the tracking is pretty powerful.
I don't know of such an alternative. A quick solution would be to use something like GeoNotes to take geolocated notes.
As far as a self-hosted solution goes, I'd just like to point out that you wouldn't need a self-hosted database of places. You could query Ouverture (or Google, OSM, etc.) for places near you, and you'd just need to store the check-in on your server with a basic API. This is an interesting problem, and not super hard to implement.
Every single (opensource) automated location tracker I've tried drained battery to the point where it is borderline useful.
Your best bet is to use something like Immich like others mentioned but it lacks specific business data like Google Timeline has, which I don't think it's possible with anything else.
So many good options! Ya'll are the best