Re: [OSM-talk] Privacy concerns - revive some sort of anonymous editing?

2018-03-03 Thread Greg Morgan
On Thu, Mar 1, 2018 at 2:35 PM, Jibix wrote: > Hello everyone, > I've been a contributor of OpenStreetMap for a few year, with a couple of > different accounts. I got them deleted today and I though it could be > worthwhile talking about this here. > > In our current era of big data, I have been

Re: [OSM-talk] Privacy concerns - revive some sort of anonymous editing?

2018-03-02 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 03/01/2018 10:35 PM, Jibix wrote: > I've been looking a bit around to see if there was a plan for developing > something like that anytime soon, or if it had been implemented already, > but I couldn't find. Related: Read the recent minutes of GDPR discussion held in the Licensing working g

Re: [OSM-talk] Privacy concerns - revive some sort of anonymous editing?

2018-03-01 Thread Pierre Béland
Note that contributors can use any character they want for user_name. This is more an anonymous Acronym with values such as "user_999",  "_ bp _", "_ laser _", "_ creamy _", "_ rifi _" " R1 ", etc.   Pierre Le jeudi 1 mars 2018 18:18:15 HNE, Toby Murray a écrit : Not to rain on you

Re: [OSM-talk] Privacy concerns - revive some sort of anonymous editing?

2018-03-01 Thread Toby Murray
Not to rain on your account deletion party... but it may be doing less than you think. User names get replicated out to anyone who consumes OSM data. It is in the weekly planet dump files as well as all the minutely/hourly/daily replication diff files. So your old (now deleted) user name and your e

Re: [OSM-talk] Privacy concerns - revive some sort of anonymous editing?

2018-03-01 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 03/01/2018 10:35 PM, Jibix wrote: > I've read (a good few of the) related e-mails from that time [1], and I > understand that there was an important ground and a general consensus > for that decision, despite a minority of voice disappointed by this > "security rather than freedom" directio