[OSM-talk] HDYC, login requirement and "privacy"

James james2432 at gmail.com
Thu May 4 19:42:14 UTC 2017


What Michal said. Any body can download the OSM data and run the same
analysis. You agreed to contribute to OSM, if you want your online
footprint to be non-existant: unplug your internet.

On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 3:33 PM, Michał Brzozowski <www.haxor at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Many know Pascal Neis' site HDYC which displays detais about an OSM
> user, like first created node, activity area, edit stats and so on:
>
> http://hdyc.neis-one.org/
>
> Today to view any stats of a user you have to login with OSM.
> Pascal replied to me that this is related to this discussion on the
> German users forum:
>
> https://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=57813
>
> I don't like the idea how this was never introduced and discussed
> outside of the German forum.
> I think that such "privacy" measures are futile and go against the
> spirit of OSM - transparency.
>
> Maybe this is due to some "moral panic" in Germany revolving around
> privacy, just like StreetView ban - except it's made clear that your
> edits are public and you agree to it!
>
> Michał
>
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