Google is currently emailing their annual map timeline update and it’s a sad reminder of all the places you were unable to visit thanks to COVID. To be clear, it actually shows you all the places you visited this year, but you will see that your timeline probably looks pretty slim compared to last year.
You can see in the email how many cities and places you visited, and even what type of places it was. My places I visited the most were marked with shopping and eating and drinking, but no one was surprised, was it? Another section compiles how long and how far you have walked and driven for each month of the year. Most people will see that January and February, and maybe in March, are sky-high, while the rest of the year only appears on the chart, thanks to the orders at home and the work of home culture.
Highlights of your leading cities and places visit the entire email, but this is nothing special. What’s neat is that Google Maps has calculated the percentage of the world you’ve traveled. Apparently I only saw 9% of planet Earth – as if I was not depressed enough to wait until my thirties to travel, Google got my back with a reminder.
To be honest, the top of the email indicates that the timeline update of Maps is automatically generated and published, and they acknowledge that COVID-19 prevented everyone from seeing their dreams around the world (in more or less words). As long as the rest of this year is nothing like the last 9 days, I would say there is still hope – we will see, right?
