[OSM-talk] Maintaining privacy as a casual mapper

[Mark Wagner]

On Sun, 3 Nov 2019 16:55:43 +0100
Oleksiy Muzalyev <oleksiy.muzalyev at bluewin.ch> wrote:

> You can assist from time to time in mapping the areas were there is
> one or another trouble, like a military conflict, or a natural or 
> technogenic disaster. The list can be found here: 
> https://tasks.hotosm.org/contribute?difficulty=ALL
> 
> This way it would be not easy to figure out in which place you live.

Unless you're mapping the exact same things remotely as you are
locally, this doesn't stop anything but the most naive effort to figure
out where someone lives.  If a mapper is tracing buildings in Zimbabwe
and adding restaurants in London, which is more likely: that they live
in Zimbabwe and are armchair-mapping in London, or that they live in
London, and are armchair-mapping in Zimbabwe?

-- 
Mark