[OSM-talk] relating trace points to gpx files

[Erik Johansson]

On 7/12/06, Lars Aronsson <lars at aronsson.se> wrote:
> Etienne wrote:
>
> > For privacy reasons, once tracklogs have been uploaded to the
> > server it is not possible to tell which points come from which
> > log file,
>
> This mantra is being repeated so often, that it is almost becoming
> a truth.

It's a mantra that is untrue in a technical meaning  as well,
according to the Mysql schema in svn it's quite possible to see what
points belong to what GPX file. There just isn't any GUI for that,
which might be because of misaligned privacy concerns.

A far as I know (from reading the code)  when you delete a GPX file,
the points will be marked invisible. So they will disappear from the
rendered images.

There is a big difference though in political views on privacy and the
technical implementation. Just because there are some hardcore view on
not giving out any data, doesn't mean that data isn't logged stored
and archived.

/erik