[OSM-dev] OpenstreetMap Trace Analysys

[John Robert Peterson]

I thought there was fundemental privacy issues with doing any of the above?

I was under the impression that my traces were totally anonymised, and that
no single tracepoint could be linked with any other? -- at least that's what
I was lead to believe when I signed up, and provided my data.

JR

2009/10/12 Erik Johansson <emj at kth.se>

> 2009/10/12 Iván Sánchez Ortega <ivan at sanchezortega.es>:
> > El Lunes, 12 de Octubre de 2009, SteveC escribió:
> >> bouncing to dev...
> >
> >
> > On 7 Oct 2009, at 10:24, Roberto Carisi wrote:
> >> Hi! I’m working for a research project related to my master degree
> >> on the openstreetmap traces database.. I was wondering if there is
> >> some possibility of searching on the database the traces crossing a
> >> specified area,
> >
> > See http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/API_v0.6#GPS_Traces
> >
>
> So basically: no you don't get the ID of the GPX trace that passes
> through the bbox, to do that you need to load the GPX:es in your own
> database. There are dumps of all the public  GPX files floating around
> those could of course be loaded into a database and do what you want,
> this would take sometime though.
>
>
> --
> /emj
>
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