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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Komentar uporabnika Obum dne 23. marec 2020 ob 07:15
very salient point. absolutely try in every word…
Komentar uporabnika SimonPoole dne 23. marec 2020 ob 08:28
The OSMFToU specifically disallow that, if you have concrete evidence of this happening, please contact us at privacy@osmfoundation.org
Komentar uporabnika PhysicsArmature dne 23. marec 2020 ob 08:40
No evidence, just preemptive worry.
Komentar uporabnika philippec dne 23. marec 2020 ob 09:22
It is better that people map the area they know. I have bad experiences with foreigners.
Komentar uporabnika LCeT dne 23. marec 2020 ob 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
Komentar uporabnika PhysicsArmature dne 24. marec 2020 ob 05:54
@LCeT, just me being great at worrying.
Komentar uporabnika BCNorwich dne 24. marec 2020 ob 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.
Komentar uporabnika amapanda ᚛ᚐᚋᚐᚅᚇᚐ᚜ 🏳️🌈 dne 24. marec 2020 ob 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.