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Tracing OSM Users

Postitas PhysicsArmature kuupäeval 23. märts 2020 – 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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Kommentaar kasutajalt Obum 23. märts 2020, kell 07:15

very salient point. absolutely try in every word…

Kommentaar kasutajalt SimonPoole 23. märts 2020, kell 08:28

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

Kommentaar kasutajalt PhysicsArmature 23. märts 2020, kell 08:40

No evidence, just preemptive worry.

Kommentaar kasutajalt philippec 23. märts 2020, kell 09:22

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

Kommentaar kasutajalt LCeT 23. märts 2020, kell 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

Kommentaar kasutajalt PhysicsArmature 24. märts 2020, kell 05:54

@LCeT, just me being great at worrying.

Kommentaar kasutajalt BCNorwich 24. märts 2020, kell 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.

Kommentaar kasutajalt amapanda ᚛ᚐᚋᚐᚅᚇᚐ᚜ 🏳️‍🌈 24. märts 2020, kell 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.

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