It would be great to see my timeline on a web browser on the pc? Is something like that possible in the future?
That’s something I’d like too, but unfortunately not something that’s easily possible.
Because of Arc’s strict privacy focus, none of the data is sent to any remote servers - it’s all kept on your phone. A web based view of the timeline data would require the data to be stored on or copied over to a remote server. Which is very much against the rule of “don’t send sensitive location data off into the cloud”.
However that doesn’t make it entirely impossible, merely a lot more difficult to do. So it’s something that I’ve never given up on, and do want to make happen someday, one way or another.
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Hi matt, do you have news about web browser version? It would be so great, to see the datas on a Online timeline in the future.
Unfortunately no update on this. Right now I’m still working hard on getting Arc Editor shipped, which is the ground up rebuild of Arc Timeline, using most modern technologies. Which is now extremely close to going into public beta.
For a web interface… that’s unfortunately a much lower priority. It will become more plausible and possible over time, but I couldn’t give you any prediction for when I might be able to get started on it.
I actually remember a while ago WhatsApp had a web browser version that essentially just connects to your phone to grab all your chat history. So no data leaves your phone. Sending messages on the web browser version that sends it to your phone, which then encrypts it and actually sends it.
Personally I don’t feel very strongly about the web browser version. But I would feel better if there is an option to export a high resolution image of the timeline and map view. I suspect folks just want to see the map on a bigger screen, so it might be easier to offer users ability to export the map as an image at various desktop resolutions.
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Hah. What a hack. But… I mean, it’d work. Though I’d worry that it’d churn a lot of energy, such that iOS would punish the app later in terms of background time. Still, certainly not impossible.
Yeah that’s also my primary desire when it comes to iPad / desktop. The map views could really do with a lot more screen space to play with. And once there’s that screen space, there’s a lot more features it’d make sense to explore with the map views.
So from my perspective, I’d want the iPad / desktop app to have ideally the full data available, rather than just a flat exported image. Although yeah, just being able to export a larger map image from the iPhone app would be good too, and something that’s been on my todos for literally years 
. It’s surprisingly more technically difficult than you’d think.
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