On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 7:56 AM, Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) < [email protected]> wrote:
> A Morris wrote: > >Sent: 14 April 2009 3:48 PM > >To: osm-dev List > >Subject: Re: [OSM-dev] [bug] direction of GPS traces > > > >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. > > Well it's been like it is for the last 4+ years! If you uploaded your GPS > data and it wasn't visible at all then what use would it be in OSM having > it! By the very act of uploading GPS data to OSM you are making a > contribution. It's only the original uploaded trace file that is made > available to the wider public if you wish or kept private if you wish not. > > Cheers > > Andy > I've been around OSM for a few years now and I was not aware "private" GPS trackpoints were available for download. I looked in a couple obvious places on the Wiki ([1] and [2]) by following the Help link on the upload page and the availability of non-public trackpoints is not mentioned anywhere. Perhaps that fact could be made overtly clear on the upload page (i.e., a checkbox with a disclaimer "I understand that by not checking Public it doesn't really mean anything") for the paranoid among us that had the illusion of privacy for something marked not Public. Karl [1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Upload#What_happens_to_my_file_after_it_has_been_uploaded.3F [2] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_Protocol_Version_0.5#Retrieving_GPS_tracks
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