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Tracing OSM Users

Posted by PhysicsArmature on 23 March 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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23 March 2020تے 07:15دے بارے Obum دی رائے

very salient point. absolutely try in every word…

23 March 2020تے 08:28دے بارے SimonPoole دی رائے

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

23 March 2020تے 08:40دے بارے PhysicsArmature دی رائے

No evidence, just preemptive worry.

23 March 2020تے 09:22دے بارے philippec دی رائے

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

23 March 2020تے 21:42دے بارے LCeT دی رائے

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

24 March 2020تے 05:54دے بارے PhysicsArmature دی رائے

@LCeT, just me being great at worrying.

24 March 2020تے 14:54دے بارے BCNorwich دی رائے

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.

24 March 2020تے 16:33دے بارے amapanda ᚛ᚐᚋᚐᚅᚇᚐ᚜ 🏳️‍🌈 دی رائے

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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