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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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ایہہ 23؍March 2020ء 07:15 تے «Obum» ٹپݨی کیتی گئی سی۔
very salient point. absolutely try in every word…
ایہہ 23؍March 2020ء 08:28 تے «SimonPoole» ٹپݨی کیتی گئی سی۔
The OSMFToU specifically disallow that, if you have concrete evidence of this happening, please contact us at privacy@osmfoundation.org
ایہہ 23؍March 2020ء 08:40 تے «PhysicsArmature» ٹپݨی کیتی گئی سی۔
No evidence, just preemptive worry.
ایہہ 23؍March 2020ء 09:22 تے «philippec» ٹپݨی کیتی گئی سی۔
It is better that people map the area they know. I have bad experiences with foreigners.
ایہہ 23؍March 2020ء 21:42 تے «LCeT» ٹپݨی کیتی گئی سی۔
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
ایہہ 24؍March 2020ء 05:54 تے «PhysicsArmature» ٹپݨی کیتی گئی سی۔
@LCeT, just me being great at worrying.
ایہہ 24؍March 2020ء 14:54 تے «BCNorwich» ٹپݨی کیتی گئی سی۔
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.
ایہہ 24؍March 2020ء 16:33 تے «amapanda ᚛ᚐᚋᚐᚅᚇᚐ᚜ 🏳️🌈» ٹپݨی کیتی گئی سی۔
Geofabrik provides regional extracts of OSM data. If you aren’t logged into OSM, you can only get versions without metadata like usernames.