Your travels stay in your browser

Local-first by design

MapRecap has no backend for your data. When you upload a Google Timeline export, the file is read and parsed entirely in your browser — it is never uploaded, stored on a server, or shared. Close the tab and nothing about your timeline persists, except a small amount of state you explicitly keep (see below).

The one exception: road routing

To draw car and bike trips along real roads, MapRecap asks a public routing service (the OSRM demo server) for the shape of the road between two stops. For those segments only, the start and end coordinates are sent to that external service over an encrypted connection.

Nothing else is sent: not your full timeline, not your home country, not your other trips. Plane, train, walk and ship segments are drawn as straight lines and never leave your device. Each routed segment is requested once and then cached, so it is not sent again.

What is stored on your device

• Routing cache — road shapes already fetched are kept in your browser's local storage so they don't need to be requested again.
• Manual trips — trips you build by hand are saved in local storage so they survive a page reload.
• Both live only in your browser and can be cleared at any time by clearing your site data.

No accounts, no tracking

There is no sign-up and no login. We do not sell, rent, or share any data, because for the vast majority of what the app does there is no data to share — it never leaves your device.

Contact

Questions about privacy? Reach us at hello@maprecap.com