What Michal said. Any body can download the OSM data and run the same
analysis. You agreed to contribute to OSM, if you want your online
footprint to be non-existant: unplug your internet.

On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 3:33 PM, Michał Brzozowski <www.ha...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Many know Pascal Neis' site HDYC which displays detais about an OSM
> user, like first created node, activity area, edit stats and so on:
>
> http://hdyc.neis-one.org/
>
> Today to view any stats of a user you have to login with OSM.
> Pascal replied to me that this is related to this discussion on the
> German users forum:
>
> https://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=57813
>
> I don't like the idea how this was never introduced and discussed
> outside of the German forum.
> I think that such "privacy" measures are futile and go against the
> spirit of OSM - transparency.
>
> Maybe this is due to some "moral panic" in Germany revolving around
> privacy, just like StreetView ban - except it's made clear that your
> edits are public and you agree to it!
>
> Michał
>
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