If you are using this dataset, please use this citation:
R. Mariescu-Istodor and P. Fränti, Grid-based method for GPS route analysis for retrieval, ACM Transactions on Spatial Algorithms and Systems 3 (3), July 2017. (pdf)


Mopsi Routes 2014 is a subset of all routes from Mopsi. It contains 6,779 routes (7,850,387 points) recorded by 51 users. Routes exist on every continent. Most routes are in Finland, in Joensuu region.

Routes consists of wide range of activities including walking, cycling, hiking, jogging, orienteering, skiing, driving, traveling by bus, train or boat. Some users recorded life routines like going to work or shopping. The dataset is suitable formobility pattern mining, user activity recognition, location-based similarity, and detecting outlier.

To inspect the data click the user id below:




Each route is stored in a separate text file containing one point per line ordered by time. The strucrture of the data is:

<Latitude> <Longitude> <Timestamp>* <Altitude>**
*  timestamp is in milliseconds.
** altitude is meters above sea level (not allways available).


Files are grouped by the user. Every user has at least 10 routes.

Summary of data:
Routes6,779
Points7,850,387
Kilometers87,851
Hours4,504

Collection details:
Who51 Mopsi Users
When19.7.2008 - 31.12.2014
HowVarious movement types
IssuesSome GPS errors are present