Just because you're paranoid, Scott...<br><br>Indeed, this is a real concern and one that is taken seriously by the OSM admin. When you upload a track, you can select "Public". This allows other users to see your traces using a URL like:
<br><br><a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/traces/user/Nickb">http://www.openstreetmap.org/traces/user/Nickb</a><br><br>If you do not check the "Public" box, your traces cannot be seen to the public. Traces need to be tagged with a particular user because of copyright issues. A malicious individual could traces a road off google maps, convert it to GPX and upload it. OSM needs a way to remove all of this users traces in such an event. Individual privacy is also considered, which is why all data in
planet.osm is anonymysed.<br><br>Am I wrong in thinking that there is a script floating around that fiddles with the GPX timestamps to prevent deriving speed anyway? <br><br>Nickb<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/30/06,
<b class="gmail_sendername">Scott</b> <<a href="mailto:scott@waye.co.uk">scott@waye.co.uk</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Are gpx traces loaded anonymously? The reason behind this question might<br>seem paranoid but government can be right bastards sometimes. From the<br>gpx traces you can get speeds and if they have a user against them you
<br>could get accused of speeding.<br><br><br>Disclaimer: I never speed of course.<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>talk mailing list<br><a href="mailto:talk@openstreetmap.org">talk@openstreetmap.org
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