[OSM-talk] Anonymising GPX tracks

Dirk-Lüder Kreie osm-list at deelkar.net
Fri Feb 15 18:08:27 GMT 2008


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Michael Collinson schrieb:

> By logging in to http://www.openstreetmap.org and clicking on the 
> username in the top right, we can set our own location.  Perhaps that 
> value could be used?  Then the GPX upload page would just need a 
> "Tick to filter out trackpoints around your home location" box.  It 
> would not even be strictly necessary to apply the obfuscation 
> algorithm discussed - just obfuscate your position enough to hide 
> which exact house or street you live on.

I'd use the function to filer out those dot clouds that tend to mass
upon my position when I forget to stop logging after I get home.


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Dirk-Lüder "Deelkar" Kreie
Bremen - 53.0952°N 8.8652°E

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