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Tracing OSM Users

Poslao PhysicsArmature u 23 ožujka 2020 na jeziku 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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Komentar od Obum u 23 ožujka 2020 u 07:15

very salient point. absolutely try in every word…

Komentar od SimonPoole u 23 ožujka 2020 u 08:28

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

Komentar od PhysicsArmature u 23 ožujka 2020 u 08:40

No evidence, just preemptive worry.

Komentar od philippec u 23 ožujka 2020 u 09:22

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

Komentar od LCeT u 23 ožujka 2020 u 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

Komentar od PhysicsArmature u 24 ožujka 2020 u 05:54

@LCeT, just me being great at worrying.

Komentar od BCNorwich u 24 ožujka 2020 u 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.

Komentar od amapanda ᚛ᚐᚋᚐᚅᚇᚐ᚜ 🏳️‍🌈 u 24 ožujka 2020 u 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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