[OSM-talk] Maintaining privacy as a casual mapper

[Andrew Hain]

Have you talked to the Data Working Group about this?

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Andrew
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Sent: 03 November 2019 16:47
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Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Maintaining privacy as a casual mapper


I find myself being stalked by one mapper, (using the stalking tools, WHODIDIT:



OpenStreetMap Changeset Analyzer and mapbox/osmcha)



who clams edit ownership over a 3,000 sq. mile bus system, who is at least 20 miles



away from me, and i am on the ground mapping, (in my profile, shows mappers up to



8 km away 4 + miles and not one of them is a mapper and have tried to friend me ?)



and sending me messages that i am wrong  and re editing every thing i do



in this catorry.



i am on the standard map, iD (in-browser editor) and he appears to be in the transit map



which he has copied the routes from yahoo.


From: Maarten Deen
Sent: Sunday, November 3, 2019 5:15 AM
To: talk at openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Maintaining privacy as a casual mapper

On 2019-11-03 11:42, Philippe Latulippe wrote:
> Hello everyone!
>
> I like to improve OSM casually, making small fixes as I use the map in
> my day-to-day life. However, doing so without any precautions would
> reveal a great deal of information about where I've been, since my
> edits cover exactly the places where I'm active. A look at my edit
> history would reveal where I live, where I work, where I've traveled.
> If last night I had added a detailed POI of a restaurant and nothing
> else, one could correctly assume that I was at that restaurant
> recently.
>
> I've managed to protect my privacy somewhat by creating one account
> for every neighbourhood I want to map. This is time consuming and
> error prone, and it's held me back from making improvements to the
> map.
>
> Are there better ways to maintain some privacy while editing the map?
> Are there some tools? Or is there a way to make edits in a way that
> doesn't reveal my username to regular users?

What do you use your OSM username for? Is there any reason not to create
an anonymous username like anon65498?

I mean, sure your mailadres suggests your name is Philippe Latulippe and
I can find some people with that name on the internet, but how do I know
that is your real name and not an alias?

Regards,
Maarten

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