[OSM-dev] OpenstreetMap Trace Analysys

[John Smith]

2009/10/12 Stefan de Konink <stefan at konink.de>:
> On Mon, 12 Oct 2009, John Smith wrote:
>
>> Even with a lot of the information removed you could still pin point
>> the location that contributors live, I really need to solve this
>> problem for myself so I can upload my traces, but I'm not happy for
>> people to know where I live or where I shop or where I work or ....
>
> So you are actually complaining and not contributing ;)

No, I vectorise the data and upload it, but I can see benefits in
having as many traces online as possible but there is some issues that
prevent that.

>> I have been donated data by some grey nomads that go north in winter,
>> but I can't uploaded it because one of the conditions is they didn't
>> want other people knowing about their favourite camping spots.
>
> Obviously take a random filter function on both end-points :)

Unfortunately that won't work in this case. The GPS they use lumps
several days worth of traces together, I'm not sure why it doesn't
split them up based on when it's switched off but that's not
happening, this problem could be over come by looking at time stamps
but someone has to code something to do that.