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Tracing OSM Users

Pubblicato da PhysicsArmature il 23 marzo 2020 in 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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Commento di Obum il 23 marzo 2020 alle 07:15

very salient point. absolutely try in every word…

Commento di SimonPoole il 23 marzo 2020 alle 08:28

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

Commento di PhysicsArmature il 23 marzo 2020 alle 08:40

No evidence, just preemptive worry.

Commento di philippec il 23 marzo 2020 alle 09:22

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

Commento di LCeT il 23 marzo 2020 alle 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

Commento di PhysicsArmature il 24 marzo 2020 alle 05:54

@LCeT, just me being great at worrying.

Commento di BCNorwich il 24 marzo 2020 alle 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.

Commento di amapanda ᚛ᚐᚋᚐᚅᚇᚐ᚜ 🏳️‍🌈 il 24 marzo 2020 alle 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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