On Thursday 04 May 2017, Michał Brzozowski wrote: > > https://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=57813 > > I don't like the idea how this was never introduced and discussed > outside of the German forum.
So you think the German community should be required to proactively communicate any subject they discuss in German language channels to the international community? > I think that such "privacy" measures are futile and go against the > spirit of OSM - transparency. Well - HDYC is a tool offered by Pascal Neis, AFAIK it is not even open source. Pascal could turn it off any time if he wanted to and of course he can also put up constraints. If you think that is against the spirit of OSM that is up to you but don't forget that there are tons of tools based on OSM data developed and run with restricted access you never hear about. It is not really conceivable how in case of HDYC making such a tool available for all mappers based on authentification with an OSM account makes this less in the spirit of OSM than a private tool that is not even known to the public. > Maybe this is due to some "moral panic" in Germany revolving around > privacy, just like StreetView ban - except it's made clear that your > edits are public and you agree to it! Just to make this clear since there are likely quite a few people reading here who will not be able or willing to parse the discussion on the German forum - discussion there was about privacy concerns w.r.t. editing metadata, which is what is the basis of HDYC. Mixing this with the subject of openness of geodata and privacy concerns reagarding geodata (like mappers recording names from the doors of private homes etc.) is not really appropriate - two very different matters which need to be considered separately. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
