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Tracing OSM Users

Parašė PhysicsArmature, laikas 2020 03 23, kalba 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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Naudotojo Obum komentaras, parašytas 2020 m. kovo 23 d., 07:15

very salient point. absolutely try in every word…

Naudotojo SimonPoole komentaras, parašytas 2020 m. kovo 23 d., 08:28

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

Naudotojo PhysicsArmature komentaras, parašytas 2020 m. kovo 23 d., 08:40

No evidence, just preemptive worry.

Naudotojo philippec komentaras, parašytas 2020 m. kovo 23 d., 09:22

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

Naudotojo LCeT komentaras, parašytas 2020 m. kovo 23 d., 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

Naudotojo PhysicsArmature komentaras, parašytas 2020 m. kovo 24 d., 05:54

@LCeT, just me being great at worrying.

Naudotojo BCNorwich komentaras, parašytas 2020 m. kovo 24 d., 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.

Naudotojo amapanda ᚛ᚐᚋᚐᚅᚇᚐ᚜ 🏳️‍🌈 komentaras, parašytas 2020 m. kovo 24 d., 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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