Dawarich 1.15.3 Update - your favorite Google Timeline alternative (stickers included)

Hi there, my dear people of r/selfhosted!

Evgenii here, the developer of [Dawarich](https://github.com/Freika/dawarich), a free, open-source, self-hostable alternative to Google Timeline.

Eight releases since [my last update](https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1w56g1u/dawarich_1141_now_rendering_millions_of_points_in/), and we're now at 1.15.3. Some fun map things, some integrations with other self-hosted apps, and a lot of work on the rough edges you brought up in the comments. Thank you for those, by the way :)

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Our links:

Github: [https://github.com/Freika/dawarich](https://github.com/Freika/dawarich)

Website: [https://dawarich.app/](https://dawarich.app/)

iOS app: [https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dawarich/id6739544999](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dawarich/id6739544999)

Android app: [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.dawarich.Dawarich](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.dawarich.Dawarich)

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**Your location history now comes with exploration achievements**

Every country gets a collectible card, and 183 countries have a grid of their first-level regions. Spend enough time in a region and it becomes part of your collection. The threshold follows your minimum-time-in-city setting, so simply passing through wouldn't count as exploring it.

Existing history is checked in the background, and earned regions stay earned. You can share a card through a link with a preview of its geography and progress.

This shipped experimentally in 1.15.2 and is available without a feature flag in 1.15.3. A little geography game built from the places you've actually been. I think this is a pretty lovely use for location history :)

https://preview.redd.it/gg2f1amml8uh1.png?width=2560&format=png&auto=webp&s=2b2d1b583949376c9f44d15a263ce5ec7d8da2d8

I have some plans for the achievements system, so this is just the beginning. For example, I'd love to add the US national parks, Camino de Santiago, lighthouses visits and probably some other spacial achievements that can fit nicely. Let me know if you have have ideas for the feature!

**Update to points editing on the map**

In the last post, I said you'd have to turn tiled rendering off to drag points around. That restriction is gone.

You can drag a point directly on the vector-tile map, and its track and segments are recalculated. There's undo and redo for the last five moves (which I love a lot), and edits sync to other open sessions. On touch screens, a long press starts the drag.

The main map now uses vector tiles by default, so there's no beta toggle to remember. We've also fixed date-range clipping: selecting Today should show the relevant part of a track, even if the track itself spans a longer period.

https://preview.redd.it/x7lycwixl8uh1.png?width=2560&format=png&auto=webp&s=cd88ca91a26f7beda2f9f94a565724ac785edd32

**Some of those GPS spikes got attention**

Several people mentioned weird jumps and tracks zigzagging between devices.

A stray location uploaded on its own is now checked again when the next point arrives, which catches anomalies the original upload couldn't reveal. Family maps also filter anomaly points.

Trips recorded by several devices at once now use the busiest device during overlapping recording periods. Devices used one after another still stay in the trip. For an existing trip with a messy route or wrong distance, press **Recalculate** on its page.

These are specific fixes; tracking and transportation-mode detection still have edge cases. Reports with the tracker, server version and an example remain very helpful.

**More of your self-hosted apps can talk to Dawarich**

* **TREK:** import planned trips, put the itinerary over your recorded route, and bring over day notes. Imported notes keep syncing until you edit them in Dawarich.
* **TeslaMateApi:** sync completed drives into your location history, manually or daily.
* **OsmAnd and other GPX waypoint exports:** import favourites as places, with categories becoming