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Tracing OSM Users

Publicado por PhysicsArmature o 23 de Marzo de 2020 en 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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Comentario de Obum no 23 de Marzo de 2020 ás 07:15

very salient point. absolutely try in every word…

Comentario de SimonPoole no 23 de Marzo de 2020 ás 08:28

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

Comentario de PhysicsArmature no 23 de Marzo de 2020 ás 08:40

No evidence, just preemptive worry.

Comentario de philippec no 23 de Marzo de 2020 ás 09:22

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

Comentario de LCeT no 23 de Marzo de 2020 ás 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

Comentario de PhysicsArmature no 24 de Marzo de 2020 ás 05:54

@LCeT, just me being great at worrying.

Comentario de BCNorwich no 24 de Marzo de 2020 ás 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.

Comentario de amapanda ᚛ᚐᚋᚐᚅᚇᚐ᚜ 🏳️‍🌈 no 24 de Marzo de 2020 ás 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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