Ezpoint User Manual

Table of Contents

  1. Travel Intelligence: The Key to Unlocking Your Data
  2. Understanding the Maps Tool
  3. Viewing Modes: Single Day vs View All
  4. Adding Daily Notes
  5. Working with Photos
  6. Creating Shared Maps

Travel Intelligence: The Key to Unlocking Your Data

Important: To get the most out of Ezpoint, you need to complete the Travel Intelligence workflow. This unlocks powerful features like trip detection, AI Q&A, and intelligent shared maps.

The Workflow: 3 Simple Steps

Step 1: Find Your Home Bases

After uploading your location data, Ezpoint automatically analyzes where you've lived based on nighttime location patterns (9pm-6am local time).

What Happens:

Your Task:

  1. Go to the Travel Intel page
  2. Review the detected home bases
  3. Confirm each home - click "Confirm" on locations where you actually lived
  4. Reject false positives (hotels, relatives' houses, etc.)

Why This Matters: Confirming your homes is essential - it's the foundation for everything else!

Step 2: Detect Your Trips

Once you've confirmed at least one home base, Ezpoint can identify all your trips.

How Trip Detection Works:

Your Task:

  1. After confirming homes, click "Detect Trips"
  2. The system processes your entire location history
  3. Review the list of detected trips with destinations and dates

Benefits:

Step 3: Ask Questions with AI

After completing home confirmation and trip detection, you unlock the AI Travel Q&A system.

What You Can Ask:

How It Works:

Important: AI Q&A only works after you've confirmed homes and detected trips. Without this foundation, the AI can't accurately answer travel questions.

Why This Workflow Matters

Without Home Confirmation:

With Home Confirmation + Trip Detection:

Quick Start Checklist

  1. ☐ Upload your Google location history
  2. ☐ Go to Travel Intel page
  3. ☐ Review and confirm your home bases
  4. ☐ Click "Detect Trips"
  5. ☐ Review your detected trips
  6. ☐ Try asking the AI a question about your travels
  7. ☐ Create shared maps of your favorite trips

Pro Tip: Start by confirming homes from your most recent years, then work backwards. This helps you see your most relevant trips first.

Understanding the Maps Tool

The Maps page is your primary tool for exploring your location history. It displays your GPS tracks on an interactive map, showing where you've been and when.

How It Works

Map Controls

Viewing Modes: Single Day vs View All

Ezpoint offers two viewing modes to explore your location data:

Single Day View

View All (Multi-Day) View

Switching Between Modes

Adding Daily Notes

Daily notes let you add personal annotations to specific moments in your timeline.

How to Add a Note

  1. Navigate to the day you want to annotate
  2. Click the "Add Note" button in the timeline
  3. Select the specific time/location from the timeline (or add a general note for the day)
  4. Enter a title and your note text
  5. Click "Save"

Notes on the Map

Notes in Different Views

Working with Photos

The photo system lets you add visual memories to your location history.

Photo Requirements

Uploading Photos

Using the Photo Library

  1. Click the camera icon to open the Photo Library dialog
  2. Switch to the "Upload" tab
  3. Click "Choose Files" or drag-and-drop photos
  4. Select up to 20 photos per batch
  5. Optionally add a caption (applies to all photos in batch)
  6. Click "Upload Photos"

Important Upload Notes

How the Photo Library Works

The Photo Library shows you photos filtered by:

This means:

Show Photos Button

Photo Display Rules

Photos appear on the map ONLY when:

  1. The map viewport includes their GPS location
  2. The selected date/range includes when they were taken (in local timezone)
  3. The "Show Photos" layer is enabled

Photo Clustering

When multiple photos are taken at nearly the same location:

Viewing Photos

Creating Shared Maps

Shared maps let you share your location history with others via a secure link.

What is a Shared Map?

A shared map is a read-only snapshot of your location data that you can share with anyone. Recipients don't need an account - they just click the link.

What You Can Share

How to Create a Shared Map

Step 1: Select What to Share

  1. Navigate to the time period you want to share
  2. Ensure the map shows the location data you want to include
  3. Turn on "Show Photos" if you want to include photos

Step 2: Open Share Dialog

  1. Click the "Share Map" button
  2. The Share dialog opens

Step 3: Configure Your Share

  1. Title: Give your shared map a memorable name (e.g., "Our Summer Road Trip 2025")
  2. Description: Add context (e.g., "Our 3-week adventure through Idaho")
  3. Photos: Select which photos to include from the current view
  4. Daily Notes: Notes from the date range are automatically included
  5. Expiration: Choose how long the link stays active (optional)

Step 4: Create and Copy Link

  1. Click "Create Share Link"
  2. Copy the generated URL
  3. Share the link via email, message, or social media

Shared Map Viewing Experience

Recipients can:

Recipients CANNOT:

View Modes in Shared Maps

Shared maps support the same viewing modes as your private maps:

Day View

View All

Managing Shared Maps

Tips & Best Practices

For Best Results

Privacy & Security

Troubleshooting

Support

For additional help or to report issues, please contact support or refer to the application documentation.