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Tracing OSM Users

Käyttäjä PhysicsArmature kirjotti tämän 23. Marcha 2020 kielellä 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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Kommentti käyttäjältä Obum 23. March 2020 klo 07.15

very salient point. absolutely try in every word…

Kommentti käyttäjältä SimonPoole 23. March 2020 klo 08.28

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

Kommentti käyttäjältä PhysicsArmature 23. March 2020 klo 08.40

No evidence, just preemptive worry.

Kommentti käyttäjältä philippec 23. March 2020 klo 09.22

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

Kommentti käyttäjältä LCeT 23. March 2020 klo 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

Kommentti käyttäjältä PhysicsArmature 24. March 2020 klo 05.54

@LCeT, just me being great at worrying.

Kommentti käyttäjältä BCNorwich 24. March 2020 klo 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.

Kommentti käyttäjältä amapanda ᚛ᚐᚋᚐᚅᚇᚐ᚜ 🏳️‍🌈 24. March 2020 klo 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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