[OSM-newbies] any reason to keep old GPS traces?

[Andre Engels]

On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Alexandros Papadopoulos
<alexandros.papadopoulos at gmail.com> wrote:
> After having uploaded a GPS trace and used it for mapping (converted
> to a way, tagged etc), is there any reason to keep the original in
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/traces/mine ? Would deleting old GPS
> traces affect the map in any way? I'd like to purge old data from my
> profile for privacy reasons.

It would also be information for later people editing. If you are
concerned about privacy, the preferred way of working I think is to
remove them, but then re-upload them anonymously.

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André Engels, andreengels at gmail.com