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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Σχόλιο από τον/την Obum στις 23 Μάρτιος 2020 στις 07:15
very salient point. absolutely try in every word…
Σχόλιο από τον/την SimonPoole στις 23 Μάρτιος 2020 στις 08:28
The OSMFToU specifically disallow that, if you have concrete evidence of this happening, please contact us at privacy@osmfoundation.org
Σχόλιο από τον/την PhysicsArmature στις 23 Μάρτιος 2020 στις 08:40
No evidence, just preemptive worry.
Σχόλιο από τον/την philippec στις 23 Μάρτιος 2020 στις 09:22
It is better that people map the area they know. I have bad experiences with foreigners.
Σχόλιο από τον/την LCeT στις 23 Μάρτιος 2020 στις 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
Σχόλιο από τον/την PhysicsArmature στις 24 Μάρτιος 2020 στις 05:54
@LCeT, just me being great at worrying.
Σχόλιο από τον/την BCNorwich στις 24 Μάρτιος 2020 στις 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.
Σχόλιο από τον/την amapanda ᚛ᚐᚋᚐᚅᚇᚐ᚜ 🏳️🌈 στις 24 Μάρτιος 2020 στις 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.