2018-02-14 17:49 GMT+01:00 Simon Poole <[email protected]>: > Generally I would prefer if we could simply have two versions of > everything, one with metadata for authenticated users/consumers one > without. >
+1. This sounds like sane measures, the metadata is really an important part for the community to work with the map. I believe it is an overreaction to speculate about privacy issues with osm metadata, which is pseudonymous data. You cannot deanonimize it without other, additional data (e.g. real name, address, ideally combined with the same nickname elsewhere, habits, interests, etc.). Yes, you can find the center of activity of an active mapper, in some cases even the interests, but that doesn't mean you can tell the residence or identity (save maybe very few situations of people living in very low density areas). There also isn't a very direct correlation of your edit and you being at a place (IP addresses shouldn't be released of course), you can (and many do) add something weeks, months or even years after you have observed it, you might have used aerial imagery, or internet research, or mapillary, or edited for a friend... If it is required nonetheless, I'm with Roland, we should ask for explicit permission. Cheers, Martin
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