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