There is a massive difference between knowing what area somone lives in and knowing thier exact address -- I'm happy with people knowing which housing estate I live in -- if somone wants to come to the area just to find me -- they will have to knock on 300 doors (t-888 style).
However from traces that are up there, it's posible to find the large bush that surrounds mappers houses -- reducing this to about 5 doors, that does worry me. This (among other things) is why i've put a lot of effort into writing a script to process traces, I now exclude an area a few hundred meters across from all of my uploads, this gives me enough anonymity to put up with the situation, I'm still not all together happy with it though. JR 2009/10/13 John Smith <[email protected]> > 2009/10/14 Martin Koppenhoefer <[email protected]>: > > 2009/10/12 John Smith <[email protected]>: > >> Even with a lot of the information removed you could still pin point > >> the location that contributors live, I really need to solve this > >> problem for myself so I can upload my traces, but I'm not happy for > >> people to know where I live or where I shop or where I work or .... > > > > you can do this even without any gpx-traces just by viewing the > > mapping-contribution. There is even a out-of-the-box perl-script to do > > this, available on the wiki/svn (don't remember). > > Just because someone donates GPX files, doesn't mean they contribute > any further, and vice versa. > > _______________________________________________ > dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev >
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