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