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Tracing OSM Users

English телендә PhysicsArmature23 March 2020 баҫылып сыҡты.

I have realized people map what is important to them in higher quantities than other things. Thus you find the areas they have mapped over the areas they don’t map. People map the areas the know more about than the areas they don’t, thus looking at edit clusters can show where people live. Finally the tag local knowledge as a source shows where someone has been. Combining these all together can be used to track people down.

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Obumтарафынан23 March 2020 cәғәт 07:15көндө ҡаралған

very salient point. absolutely try in every word…

SimonPooleтарафынан23 March 2020 cәғәт 08:28көндө ҡаралған

The OSMFToU specifically disallow that, if you have concrete evidence of this happening, please contact us at privacy@osmfoundation.org

PhysicsArmatureтарафынан23 March 2020 cәғәт 08:40көндө ҡаралған

No evidence, just preemptive worry.

philippecтарафынан23 March 2020 cәғәт 09:22көндө ҡаралған

It is better that people map the area they know. I have bad experiences with foreigners.

LCeTтарафынан23 March 2020 cәғәт 21:42көндө ҡаралған

Totally correct, and the nice thing is OSM doesn’t enforce a real-name policy and has a tolerance for multi-accounts: osm.wiki/OpenStreetMap_account#Account_Names_and_Multi_Account_Policies

PhysicsArmatureтарафынан24 March 2020 cәғәт 05:54көндө ҡаралған

@LCeT, just me being great at worrying.

BCNorwichтарафынан24 March 2020 cәғәт 14:54көндө ҡаралған

I usually cut out the pieces of a GPS trace around my home before uploading it. Thus folk can only roughly know where I am which I don’t mind.

amapanda ᚛ᚐᚋᚐᚅᚇᚐ᚜ 🏳️‍🌈тарафынан24 March 2020 cәғәт 16:33көндө ҡаралған

Geofabrik provides regional extracts of OSM data. If you aren’t logged into OSM, you can only get versions without metadata like usernames.

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