[OSM-dev] Any tile statistics (unique visitors)

[Stefan de Konink]

Jochen Topf wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 07, 2008 at 01:36:05AM +0100, Stefan de Konink wrote:
>> Tom Hughes wrote:
>>> If what you're asking is why we don't just give anybody who asks root 
>>> access to the web server then I hope that would answer itself.
>> Read-rights on my logs are available to anyone :)
> 
> I hope you have properly anonymized them beforehand! Even anonymized,
> the logs of a tile server are problematic in a privacy sense. You can
> probably identify some individuals from the session data.

In The Netherlands 'personal data' is extremely well defined. And I can 
tell you, an IP address is definitely *not* one of them.

Never the less, I expect from any users that do aggregation task they 
care about aggregation results not about raw data :)


Stefan