+1 both James & Michal's comments.

Thanks Michal for bringing up this undiscussed topic to the mailing list.

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*Denis Carriere*
*GIS Software & Systems Specialist*

On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 3:42 PM, James <james2...@gmail.com> wrote:

> What Michal said. Any body can download the OSM data and run the same
> analysis. You agreed to contribute to OSM, if you want your online
> footprint to be non-existant: unplug your internet.
>
> On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 3:33 PM, Michał Brzozowski <www.ha...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Many know Pascal Neis' site HDYC which displays detais about an OSM
>> user, like first created node, activity area, edit stats and so on:
>>
>> http://hdyc.neis-one.org/
>>
>> Today to view any stats of a user you have to login with OSM.
>> Pascal replied to me that this is related to this discussion on the
>> German users forum:
>>
>> 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.
>> I think that such "privacy" measures are futile and go against the
>> spirit of OSM - transparency.
>>
>> 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!
>>
>> Michał
>>
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