Ask HN: How to extract location data while traveling

I travel fairly frequently for work and family and recently decided I'd like to pull out location data from somewhere on a regular, automated basis. I started looking into Google Maps, but as far as I can tell I'd have to jack my own cookies to automate the KML extraction, which isn't ideal. Are there any GPS devices on the market they sync with the cloud and have open APIs? Or are there any apps (maybe in the Strava family) that don't focus on exercise but just on walking (and also have API accessible data).

Just figured it was worth a shot to ask in case anyone has some experience in this space.

Thanks!