[Talk-GB] QUESTION

[Andrew Chadwick (email lists)]

Shaun McDonald wrote:
> Angela .E. wrote:
>>
>> I noticed when trying to upload data on the OSM i had the option to 
>> make my data "public" or "private" - why do we have this option? I 
>> thought the whole point of the map is to make it available to all.
> 
> See http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Upload
> If you have more questions please ask more specifically.

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Privacy_Policy#GPS_Trace_Data is
perhaps a better link which answers the question asked and states policy.

The difference is that public GPX uploads can be downloaded in GPX form,
and are associated with your username. Non-'public' points can still be
downloaded, but timestamp and creator are stripped, leaving basically a
2d scatterplot with some extra information on some of the nodes sometimes.

-- 
Andrew Chadwick