On 21 February 2012 16:00, Carsten Nielsen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Den 21-02-2012 16:46, Andre Engels skrev: > >> It would also be information for later people editing. If you are >> concerned about privacy, the preferred way of working I think is to >> remove them, but then re-upload them anonymously. > > It is definitiley usefull to keep the GPS traces. I often use them to verfiy > the alignment of the background image in Potlach. > I have previously been able to change the privacy of my uploaded GPS traces, > back and forth between Fully identifiable and private, I belive that is > still possible so no need to remove and re upload the traces.
Thanks for the suggestion - I very recently realised how other people's GPS traces can be used, so I would definitely like to keep the trace data there for the OSM community to benefit. On the other hand, I would quite like to properly disconnect them from my name. Simply switching them to "private" does not address my main concern: if law enforcement asks for my data, OSM probably has no option but to hand it over without even telling me. Seems to me that re-uploading from one or more anonymized profiles (created using Tor etc) is the way forward. A bit labour intensive on my part, but achieves both objectives: 1. Trace data is available to the OSM community 2. It's hard to link the traces to me. Cheers, Alex _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
