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Verfasst von PhysicsArmature am 23. März 2020 in English

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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Diskussion

Kommentar von Obum am 23. März 2020 um 07:15 Uhr

very salient point. absolutely try in every word…

Kommentar von SimonPoole am 23. März 2020 um 08:28 Uhr

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

Kommentar von PhysicsArmature am 23. März 2020 um 08:40 Uhr

No evidence, just preemptive worry.

Kommentar von philippec am 23. März 2020 um 09:22 Uhr

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

Kommentar von LCeT am 23. März 2020 um 21:42 Uhr

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

Kommentar von PhysicsArmature am 24. März 2020 um 05:54 Uhr

@LCeT, just me being great at worrying.

Kommentar von BCNorwich am 24. März 2020 um 14:54 Uhr

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.

Kommentar von amapanda ᚛ᚐᚋᚐᚅᚇᚐ᚜ 🏳️‍🌈 am 24. März 2020 um 16:33 Uhr

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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