Hi, Karl Newman wrote: > I've been around OSM for a few years now and I was not aware "private" GPS > trackpoints were available for download.
Firstly, the API does not talk of "private" GPS tracks. It only gives you a checkbox saying "public". > I looked in a couple obvious places > on the Wiki ([1] and [2]) by following the Help link on the upload page and > the availability of non-public trackpoints is not mentioned anywhere. I have fixed the description on the Help page. > Perhaps that fact could be made overtly clear on the upload page (i.e., a > checkbox with a disclaimer "I understand that by not checking Public it > doesn't really mean anything") That would be wrong. A GPX trace not marked as "public" is only a cloud of lat/lon points. Nobody can see who uploaded it, when it was uploaded, or which points belong to the same trace. > for the paranoid among us that had the > illusion of privacy If you want privacy, don't upload your data. The paranoid among us are, and have always been, living by that rule. Bye Frederik _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
