That doesn't sound very private to me... It seems to me it would be very easy to join the dots from, say, someone's house and see where they go to. Especially if I could download the "public" traces separately, and subtract these from the area download, leaving just the private traces...
Frankly this sounds like a disastrous security hole. Aled. On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 1:51 PM, Jonathan Bennett <[email protected]> wrote: > Johnny Rose Carlsen wrote: >> Does that mean that my non-public traces are still available to >> others?, I thought that they would only be shown to me. > > The individual points from private traces are shown when someone asks > for an area download, but there's no way of telling which points in that > area are from which trace, or who uploaded them. It's not possible to > reconstruct a trace from just the points. > -- > Jonathan (Jonobennett) > > _______________________________________________ > dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev > _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
