On Wednesday 16 September 2020, Mateusz Konieczny via talk wrote: > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Limitations_on_mapping_private_in >formation
I think while that page does not contain gross factual errors as far as i see it could be fairly misleading for people unfamiliar with OSM otherwise: * it start with "The freedom to map the world..." which implies the aim of OSM is "to map the world" - which it is not. OSM aims to collect verifiable local knowledge of the geography of the world. That is something different. * The list of things to "do not" kind of implies this is a distinct set of rules separate from and above the general goals and values of the project (i.e. verifiable local knowledge of the geography). I don't think that is the case. My own take on privacy related limitations to mapping would be much more simple: Individual humans as well as their activities and social interactions between individual humans - including permanent physical manifestations of those - are not as such part of the verifiable geography we intend to record. The private swimming pool and the private driveway become part of the verifiable geography because members of society on a larger scale (i.e. not just the personal social environment of the owner) interact with them on a routine basis. In those cases mostly visually - but that can be sufficient. I think with this clarification everything on your list of things not to map due to privacy concerns is covered by being not mappable due to not being part of the verifiable geography. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
