[OSM-talk] The long tail

[David Groom]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Erik Johansson" <erjohan at gmail.com>
To: "Talk Openstreetmap" <talk at openstreetmap.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2006 3:47 PM
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] The long tail


> On 7/6/06, David Groom <reviews at pacific-rim.net> wrote:
>> > Wikipedia does full dumps, my children and hopefully their children
>> > will be able to see how much time their grandfather spent on
>> > Wikipedia. I don't see a big privacy policy on wikipedia that says
>> > "Hey everyone can see what you edit", it's pretty clear that you are
>> > responsible for your actions.
>>
>> It does, in the privavcy policy you refer to in your PS.
>> >From  http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Privacy_policy
>> The second paragrpagh under the summary states "If you contribute to the
>> Wikimedia projects, you are publishing every word you post publicly. If 
>> you
>> write something, assume that it will be retained forever."
>
>> > PS. there is a privacy policy on wikipedia
>> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Privacy_policy
>
>
> Yes  I read the policy, and you know it took me quite a while before I
> saw it was linked from the bottom of every page, I've never once
> bothered to look for it because it's quite obvious what is done with
> my data.
>
> The important point here is that it's obvious what happens when you edit.
>

I have to say that for some time it wasn't obvious to me that the GPX tracks 
contained both speed and course information.

Not that I ever would myself break a speed limit myself you understand :), 
but it is possible that some contributors of GPX tracks may have exceeded 
the speed limit.  Whilst its highly unlikely that any police / enforcement 
agency might look at the GPS tracks, note which section of road it referred 
to, what the speed limit was there, and then see how fast the vehicle was 
travelling, it is possible.

Similarly it may be that for the sake of expediency in obtaining a GPS trace 
a contributor went through a no entry sign.  Or maybe went down a road a few 
minutes before time access restrictions were due to be lifted (maybe as a 
result of his clock being wrong).

In this respect I'd have to agree with Steve's policy of being overly 
cautious on this matter.

Without wishing to get too political here, it may be that some contributors 
to this mailing list live in jurisdictions where the authorities have a bit 
more concern for individual freedoms than appears to be the case in other 
jurisdictions, and therefore those contributors have a different approach to 
privacy.

David



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