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

[Christoph Hormann]

On Thursday 04 May 2017, Nicolás Alvarez wrote:
>
> > Just to make this clear since there are likely quite a few people
> > reading here who will not be able or willing to parse the
> > discussion on the German forum - discussion there was about privacy
> > concerns w.r.t. editing metadata, which is what is the basis of
> > Mixing this with the subject of openness of geodata and
> > privacy concerns reagarding geodata (like mappers recording names
> > from the doors of private homes etc.) is not really appropriate -
> > two very different matters which need to be considered separately.
>
> I don't think Michał was mixing those two different matters.

Michał made a connection to privacy concerns regarding Google StreetView 
which were exclusively about the recorded data and not about the 
recording metadata (which Google obviously has no interest in 
publishing).

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