Doing more with your Google Location History

With the discontinuation of the Google Latitude API several years ago some nice third party tools to visualize your location history disappeared, which at that time triggered me to look into what can be done with Google Takeout data. The result was the location_history_json_converter (or latitude_json_converter as it was called back then) which thanks to several contributions from the open source community has turned out to be a rather useful and powerful tool to prepare your takeout data for further manipulation and visualization.
Since I've recently used the tool myself again for a travel report (more about this below) and I never actively promoted or explained the tool, I've decided to put together this blog post to tell you about the tool and some samples of what can be done with it.