Now that Facebook is sunsetting Moves and has a data export, any chance you will make an import feature for all this data? I have almost 5 years of Moves data and I don't really want to lose it :(.
@jamierytlewski Your timeline items and activity event data (basically everything you see in the app) is only in your private iCloud container [Edit: And a lot of it actually never even goes that far, and never leaves the app], so Arc (or I) can't do anything with it outside of the app itself.
The app does build anonymised "activity type fingerprints" for each of your activities (walking, cycling, bus, train, car, etc), which are then combined into shared fingerprints, to make the app more accurate for everyone.
The fingerprints are things like distribution maps of movement speed, steps per second, altitude, accelerometer data, etc. So when all that is combined together it allows the app to "fingerprint" match your current activity type, to distinguish between a train or a car trip, for example.
Your personal fingerprints aren't shared - those are private. The combined "global" fingerprints, made up of the combined values of everyone's individual fingerprints, are shared. So there's enough information in the "global" fingerprints to answer questions like "what's the most common walking speed in this city" or "what altitude do planes fly over this ocean" or "how much does the phone shake around while people cycle in this city".
Basically the philosophy is: Don't store anything that doesn't need to be stored. And don't share anything that doesn't need to be shared. The app isn't a data collection business, it's a personal pet project. So it stores everything as privately and securely as possible, and only aggregates enough anonymised data necessary to improve the accuracy.
Hey, so far this has been great. I decided to start using it this month with the announcement of Moves closing.
I'm wondering if you guys have any plans to suck in Moves data before it closes at the end of this month? That would be amazing.
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