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