[OSM-talk] Improving community within the OSM site

[Ben Gimpert]

On Tue, 23 May 06 @10:09am, Erik Johansson wrote:
> To create the community we have to expose ourselves more, and not
> protect our privacy. As Wikipedia shows all info on edits (time and
> who) so why shouldn't we. The biggest privacy concern is the GPX
> tracks, not where you edit.
> 
> You can download all my GPX tracks, and you will know this of me:
> 1. where I buy my tea (great shop)
> 2. where I live
> 3. where I buy my thai food (wonderful food)
> 4. where I work
> 5. where I study
> 6. when I'm not doing what I should do.
> 
> But that's because I choose not to edit my GPX files, and I don't
> really care about privacy.
> 
> Am I alone thinking like this?

Absolutely not.  My lifestyle is deeply uninteresting, and so for my own
purposes I hope OSM's privacy consciousness -- in its well-intended
extremeness -- comes to be reconsidered.