Quick start
- Sign in and open Home or File Management.
- Import a current mobile Google Timeline export, Ezpoint mobile GPS/NDJSON data, or an Ezpoint travel-journal restoration archive.
- Choose Merge for a normal update. When it finishes, use Maps to inspect dates and routes.
- Optionally add geotagged photos in the standalone Photo Library, add notes, and review Travel Graph.
- For trip-aware features, review home bases and trips in Travel AI.
- Download and securely keep a backup periodically.
Ezpoint’s location and presence results are calculated from data available in your account. They are not legal, tax, immigration, or professional advice.
Home and File Management
Home is the starting place for account and import status. File Management is where you add, inspect, export, restore, or remove location files.
Importing location data
Ezpoint accepts .json, .json.gz, .ndjson, .ndjson.gz, and .zip Ezpoint journal archives. For Google data, use a current mobile Google Timeline export. Ezpoint can also import its mobile GPS/NDJSON output and restore a compatible journal archive. Keep compressed files intact; do not rename another file type to these extensions.
When Google preview is available, select the dates you want before importing. The preview lets you confirm the export and imports that selected range rather than requiring every date in the file.
Merge or replace
Merge new data is recommended for normal updates. It keeps current imported history and adds useful new records while handling duplicate data. Use it for updates, gaps, and overlapping exports.
Replace / delete data and import new intentionally removes current imported location history before rebuilding from the selected file. Use it only when the replacement contains everything you mean to retain. Download a backup first and read the confirmation carefully.
Export, backup, and restore
Use File Management to export location data or download a complete travel-journal backup when offered. A journal archive preserves restorable journal/account travel information, but photos are excluded. Keep originals separately and re-upload them after restoration if needed. To restore, select an Ezpoint journal .zip in the importer and follow the prompts, then verify restored dates, notes, trips, and settings.
Maps
Maps is the interactive view of recorded points and routes. Select a date or range, then pan and zoom to explore the track. A single date suits close review; a multi-day range helps show a trip or pattern.
Actual range and view range
The actual range is the date span represented by available data or selected dates. The view range is the portion currently displayed or filtered in the map. Moving or zooming changes what you see, not what is stored. If results appear missing, check the selected dates and map view first. Map layers can be toggled independently; the photo layer is separate from location tracks.
Notes, Smart Notes, and Day Logs
Select the relevant date or timeline item, add text, and save to preserve context alongside location history. Notes remain part of your private journal. Review the content presented by any share before distributing its link.
Smart Notes are AI-researched stories about interesting places near your recorded route. Vacation routes can be discovered automatically, and you can search another visible map range yourself. A story explains what you passed; it does not prove that you stopped or visited. Smart Notes are available on eligible plans and appear in private map and trip-curation contexts.
Day Logs are a separate shared-map feature. On supported shared days, a Day Log creates a concise daily travel journal from the route and content included in that share, such as photos, notes, activities, weather, and selected Smart Notes. Review the result and edit it when needed; it is a narrative summary rather than an authoritative record.
Photo Library
Photo Library is a standalone route for managing photos; it is not limited to the active map viewport or map date filter.
Upload and location behavior
Upload JPEG/JPG, PNG, HEIC, or HEIF images by choosing files or dragging them onto the library. Ezpoint reads metadata to place images with GPS coordinates and show capture dates. Images without usable GPS are skipped for location-based upload; a missing capture timestamp displays as an unknown date.
Geotagged images have their own photo markers/breadcrumb layer. Enable the photo layer in Maps to see qualifying images at their locations; it is separate from GPS history and the library.
Browse and manage
The library shows storage, oldest/newest photo details, and a paginated grid of 48 photos per page. Search captions or filenames and sort by newest, oldest, or largest. Open an image for its available version, GPS coordinates, capture date, file size, camera information, and caption editing. Use Select for current-page bulk deletion or delete one image from its detail view. Deletion permanently removes the image and associated photo breadcrumb data.
Storage tiers
Free storage is thumbnail-only (200px); paid storage can retain full-resolution images. Items are labeled Thumbnail, Standard, or Full Res, and the best available version is displayed. This does not change metadata behavior.
Travel Graph
Travel Graph turns recorded travel into higher-level views. Summary provides travel-pattern and data-derived totals; Personality presents a travel-profile style interpretation; and Trips organizes detected or saved trip records for review. Results depend on imported data quality and completeness and describe recorded history, not every movement you may have made.
Saved Trips
Use Saved Trips to browse trip records and open trip details. A detail can bring together dates, route/location context, notes, photos, and available Smart Notes. Review dates and labels before relying on a record: gaps, disabled phone location, and sparse samples can affect trip boundaries.
Travel AI
For the best results, import the history you want to ask about, review suggested home bases and confirm, adjust, or add them, then review detected trips. Ask focused questions through the Travel AI interface.
Home bases help distinguish time at home from travel; trips provide structured dates and destinations. Answers are based on data in your Ezpoint account and can be incomplete when history is incomplete. Verify important dates in Maps or trip details. Travel AI does not promise voice interaction, ongoing multi-turn memory, or information from external services.
Shared Maps
Create a share from map/share controls, then manage it in Shared Maps. Give it a clear title and description, check the date range, copy the link, and share only with people you trust.
Static and live shares
A static share has fixed start and end dates and does not grow as new data arrives. A live share begins at its selected start and updates while live; it may have an optional auto-end date. Owners can edit permitted details, copy or open the link, see view counts, revise the optional auto-end, and select End live share. Ending makes it a fixed range through that day; its link remains active unless deleted, inactive, or expired.
Privacy and access
Shared links are for viewing, not editing, and expose content included in that share. Inspect range and content before sending. Owners can see view counts. Delete a share to revoke the link; expired or inactive shares are unavailable. Public/shared maps do not promise unpublished or unfinished story features.
Tax Reports and Forecast
Tax Reports & Forecast supplies calculated state/country presence summaries from recorded data. It is informational only, not tax, residency, filing, immigration, or legal advice.
History
Choose a year to generate or open its report and download a PDF. History Days (shown as “Days”) are calendar days assigned to where you spent the most time and generally total about the days in the period. Tax-days are meaningful-presence days; one day can count in more than one state, so totals may exceed a year’s days. Results are only as complete as the available GPS and location identification; review your records for consequential decisions.
Forecast
Choose Forecast to plan current and future years. Select or add a state/country, then click or drag dates to paint it. Use Travel for travel days and Clear to remove a plan. Travel endpoints are inferred from surrounding planned locations, so add locations before and after travel when possible. Current-year elapsed dates use actual available results while future dates are editable. Completed years are read-only, with saved plans visible beside actuals. Print or save the calendar as a PDF.
Settings
Settings contains account and subscription controls, including the displayed plan and eligible Smart Notes add-on options. Review changes before confirming, especially plan or add-on changes. Use File Management—not Settings—for backups and imports.
Troubleshooting and privacy
- Import will not start: verify a supported extension and a complete file.
- Dates are missing: confirm preview/date selection and File Management details; merge another valid export if the source includes more dates.
- Need recovery: restore a previously downloaded journal archive if available; archives exclude photos.
- Photos missing from Maps: confirm usable GPS, matching date/view area, and the enabled photo layer; browse directly in Photo Library.
- Graph, AI, or reports incomplete: check history gaps, home bases, trips, and map dates. No feature can infer data never recorded.
- Live map should stop: end it in Shared Maps; delete it to revoke access. Also check auto-end and expiration.
Location history is sensitive. Keep backups secure, use Merge unless you deliberately rebuild history, and review every shared link’s range and content.