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meshtastic / network-management-client

A Meshtastic desktop client, allowing simple, offline deployment and administration of an ad-hoc mesh communication network. Built in Rust and TypeScript.
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Feature Idea: Location History #399

Open jp-bennett opened 1 year ago

jp-bennett commented 1 year ago

I'm currently using an OwnTracks integration for this, but it would be quite useful to retain location data history. I'm thinking similar to the Google Maps Timeline. Where did this particular radio go in the past 12 hours? On this day last week? etc.

ajmcquilkin commented 1 year ago

That sounds like a cool feature! Would you mind attaching some design inspiration? I'm not familiar with that in Google Maps

jp-bennett commented 1 year ago

Timeline looks like this, and has some nice tooling for looking at a day at a time. maps

And OwnTracks Recorder will give individual location points. Not quite as slick, but open source. Screenshot_20230622_172916

ajmcquilkin commented 1 year ago

Thanks! I'll start playing around with some designs and see how this could fit into the mapping interface. How would you expect to open the timeline view for a given node? I'm imagining that clicking on a node could open a menu which could have an option to view its history? Super open to thoughts on this one

jp-bennett commented 1 year ago

There might be an option to show "tails" on the normal map view, to see where each node has immediately been.

And then when on the map view, maybe add the option to view a device's movements in the device details box. The only thing that comes to mind there is that finding and clicking on an individual node might be fiddly. So maybe list of nodes with location data on the far left, as a submenu of "View Map"