Visualization of iPhone location data.

If you’re a proud owner of an iPhone or iPad just like me, you might find it pretty interesting to know that these fancy devices store location based data. I don’t want to start a discussion about security and integrity of this method but if you want to have a look at what data is being stored, you can. On the O’Reilly radar there is a post about a little tool written by Pete Warden which allows you to create a graphical presentation of all the places you’ve been and brought your iPhone to. Seems like a whole lot of data is being stored as you can see on the screenshot below:

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