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