I was quite interested of domain-specific lossy compression of such traces at some point, but when storage capacity and data transfer expenses dropped it became pretty irrelevant even for once-per-second GPS traces...

@people in the know, when does Community close as dupe? (I had suggested a dupe here: mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/259141/… but I am only one vote...)

@b3m2a1 The tooltip that appears when you hover over the community user says "The question's author approved a pending duplicate vote"