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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23 মার্চ 2020 07:15-এ-এ Obum কর্তৃক করা মন্তব্য
very salient point. absolutely try in every word…
23 মার্চ 2020 08:28-এ-এ SimonPoole কর্তৃক করা মন্তব্য
The OSMFToU specifically disallow that, if you have concrete evidence of this happening, please contact us at privacy@osmfoundation.org
23 মার্চ 2020 08:40-এ-এ PhysicsArmature কর্তৃক করা মন্তব্য
No evidence, just preemptive worry.
23 মার্চ 2020 09:22-এ-এ philippec কর্তৃক করা মন্তব্য
It is better that people map the area they know. I have bad experiences with foreigners.
23 মার্চ 2020 21:42-এ-এ LCeT কর্তৃক করা মন্তব্য
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
24 মার্চ 2020 05:54-এ-এ PhysicsArmature কর্তৃক করা মন্তব্য
@LCeT, just me being great at worrying.
24 মার্চ 2020 14:54-এ-এ BCNorwich কর্তৃক করা মন্তব্য
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.
24 মার্চ 2020 16:33-এ-এ amapanda ᚛ᚐᚋᚐᚅᚇᚐ᚜ 🏳️🌈 কর্তৃক করা মন্তব্য
Geofabrik provides regional extracts of OSM data. If you aren’t logged into OSM, you can only get versions without metadata like usernames.