Timeline Visualizer

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This journal records user-visible product, privacy, documentation, and compatibility changes. Cosmetic-only edits are not treated as new releases.

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Clear publishing and policy information

  • Added dedicated About, Contact, Terms, and Updates pages.
  • Named Timeline Visualizer as the visible website author and publisher without inventing a personal identity.
  • Added real publication and modification dates to visible page content and JSON-LD.
  • Expanded global navigation and the sitemap so trust and policy pages are directly discoverable.
  • Added automated checks for canonical URLs, page identity, dates, sitemap entries, and R2-hosted static assets.

Playback, route review, and animation exports

  • Improved playback interpolation and long-stop skipping so movement is less abrupt.
  • Adjusted follow mode to avoid an immediate map jump when the control is enabled.
  • Added local WebM and MP4 animation recording with browser capability checks.
  • Added a local avatar image option for the moving playback marker.
  • Improved distance precision so shorter totals can display a useful decimal value.

Initial Timeline Visualizer release

  • Added local parsing for supported Google Maps Timeline JSON exports.
  • Added colour-coded transport routes, date filters, distance and duration statistics, route editing, and map image export.
  • Documented the separation between local file handling and remote base-map requests.
  • Added English and Simplified Chinese interface copy.