Not yet: family will come to mobile apps in one of the future releases.
I have a feeling I answered this specific question multiple times in the recent days, was it you who asked it? :)
The Family feature is free for self-hosters and will be added as a separate subscription plan to the cloud this summer
For tax reports? Nope, but for German tax offices it’s enough to provide estimation
Ah, of course! The Trips feature is what you’re looking for. Example: I track 24/7, and then go to the Trips page, hit “Create Trip” and set datetimes for the beginning and the end of the trip. Dawarich calculates and shows route on the map, and when you save the trip, time, distance and visited countries are being calculated. Check the example: 
I just don’t stop tracking 24/7 on my iPhone. Some users configure Automations to start tracking when they leave their home and stop when they are back. My battery drain was 5% in the last 24 hours, and if it’s too much, Dawarich supports half dozen 3rd party mobile apps to track geodata (including Traccar), you can try them all :)
Nothing stops you from recording 24/7 or only during a period when you toggled tracking on :) I’m also using Dawarich for tax purposes
You can import Google Timeline data, extracted via Takeout or from your phone, GPX, GeoJSON, .rec (OwnTracks’ format), KML and KMZ, so if you have some existing data, we got you covered. On iOS, there is also an option to import GPX tracks from your Apple Health, but this is a paid feature for self-hosters. It’s available for free for our cloud subscribers though.
As for the whys: It’s good to have a way to see where you’ve been at some point in time or when you visited a certain place. It’s also useful for reimbursement purposes, for example I use it to see how many days I worked from home and how many days I went to fork from the office, so I could properly file my tax report and get tax reimbursement. Or to get reimbursement from my employer for a business trip
Love the Eurotrip movie!
Well, Google killed their Timeline and I just dove into selfhosting at the moment, so I used OwnTracks for 6 months and decided it’s not enough :) That’s how Dawarich was born
Hope it will work well for you!
Thanks! Should’ve linked it in the post :)
There is an unofficial app mentioned in the post, it should be soon available on f-droid :)
We have multiple ways for donations and we don’t really care about fees right now :) Any support appreciated!
F-Droid is possible but we’re currently using google services for location tracking, so it’s not possible to publish there due to that. And we also have a LOT of work ahead of us, so it’s not a priority
Yup, we have integrations for both Immich and Photoprism, and you can totally show your photos on the map once integrated
To a degree, yes! Check this out:
This is Fog of War mode, removing the Fog of War (as you guessed) from places you visited or drove through.
The percentage of how much of a city or a country was discovered is something I want to implement at some point in the future
Before building Dawarich, I naturally extracted my data via Google Takeout and my mind was blown same as yours when I realized just HOW MUCH they know about me even when we’re talking location only. It was a big incentive for me to take control over my data, or, at least, to ALSO have it, same as many-many cloud provides and apps have.
For home assistant integration, you can start here: https://dawarich.app/docs/getting-started/track-your-location#home-assistant
I tried so hard to fix the formatting… :D
Yes, it tries to infer transportation mode based on speed and accelleration (https://github.com/Freika/dawarich/blob/dev/app/services/transportation_modes/mode_classifier.rb#L16-L43). I can’t claim it’s perfect, but user can adjust values for these in the map settings, and based on how it behaves in real world, I may introduce further adjustments to the default settings
Can I ask what it produces in your main language? :)
I’m feeling stupid :D Thanks! Won’t even fix the typo, this is hilarious