This is high on my personal wishlist! I was hoping to get it into Arc 3.0, but it’ll have to wait until 3.1. But either way, it’s definitely going to happen 😄

Fantastic to hear and thanks Matt.

i liek the idea of swarm imports but I know that my swarm logins i add somewhat asynchronously. I just hope it wont screw with my timeline too much

Tim, Swarm shouldn’t let you add check ins to places that you’re not at (or weren’t at). So it should be fine.

Sometimes Swarm reminds you about places you might have been at earlier in the day or on a previous day, and lets you add a checkin for that place. But that’s fine, because the checkin will be dated with the time that you were actually there, so it’ll all match up.

While that’s technically true, because I lived in a city, everything i visited was always in range of the find function and I got into the habit of just checking in at the end of the day rather than at that moment. I only ever check in to new places since I don’t really think there’s a point to checking in more than once on swarm

I’d like import if it was like the quantified map app (which I think is no longer updated) when it’s just places the check in as points on the map. (It kind of links with my other suggestion where I asked for the ability to only display locations and not transportation modes) rather than using it to calibrate the tracking function.

If you enable this, which I think you should. I hope that you can toggle whether or not it overwrites check-ins or only applies check ins to future events.

I realize I have an edge case so if you don’t implement any of these just please put a warning up during import so I don’t override my current arc points

The initial implementation will only import new checkins.

However I do eventually want to use it to backfill the timeline with historic visits. So I would recommend doing some housekeeping on your Swarm checkins history, to remove any incorrectly located checkins!

Maybe have it run a check of accepting if location is within 100 meters?

Tim, the Swarm checkins that Arc receives only contain the location of the place you checked into. They don’t contain your location at the time that you checked in. So Arc has no way of confirming that they are valid.

Or only overwrite for non-confirmed entries?

That is already the case. The Swarm importer (and all data importers, and the processing engine itself) isn’t allowed to modify manually confirmed places and activity types.