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Tracing OSM Users

Sett inn af PhysicsArmature 23. mars 2020 á 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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Athugasemd eftir Obum sett inn 23. mars 2020 kl. 07:15

very salient point. absolutely try in every word…

Athugasemd eftir SimonPoole sett inn 23. mars 2020 kl. 08:28

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

Athugasemd eftir PhysicsArmature sett inn 23. mars 2020 kl. 08:40

No evidence, just preemptive worry.

Athugasemd eftir philippec sett inn 23. mars 2020 kl. 09:22

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

Athugasemd eftir LCeT sett inn 23. mars 2020 kl. 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

Athugasemd eftir PhysicsArmature sett inn 24. mars 2020 kl. 05:54

@LCeT, just me being great at worrying.

Athugasemd eftir BCNorwich sett inn 24. mars 2020 kl. 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.

Athugasemd eftir amapanda ᚛ᚐᚋᚐᚅᚇᚐ᚜ 🏳️‍🌈 sett inn 24. mars 2020 kl. 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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