[talk-au] Hi all ...

[James Livingston]

Resent, because I accidently only sent it to David

On 21/06/2009, at 4:56 PM, David Dean wrote:
> Of course, if the number of kilometres is always the same you could  
> easily
> work out where the location is anyway by looking at the blank hole  
> in all
> their traces, helpfully centred on their house.

It's a matter of who you're trying to stop from finding out where you  
live, and how close you're willing to have then get from OSM. Are we  
trying to stop someone who doesn't really care from noticing exactly  
where you live, or are you trying to stop someone hell-bent on knowing  
where you live from even knowing which suburb you are in?

If it's just to stop people casually seeing where you live, then  
cutting out a polygon will probably be enough.

For the second case, not uploading GPS tracks may not be enough. I  
would guess that there are plenty of clues as to where you live just  
in your edit locations and patterns - like someone's early edits are  
probably going to be streets near where they live.


While I'd prefer that you can't tell exactly where I live, I reckon it  
would be pretty difficult to stop someone from finding out which  
suburb I live in.

-- 

James