You can assist from time to time in mapping the areas were there is one
or another trouble, like a military conflict, or a natural or
technogenic disaster. The list can be found here:
https://tasks.hotosm.org/contribute?difficulty=ALL
This way it would be not easy to figure out in which place you live.
Frankly, I do not like an idea of creating the multiple "ghost"
accounts. These databases are maintained by volunteers, often on
shoestring budget. If everyone from a million mappers will create
several accounts than the database's table will have not a million rows,
what is already quite a lot, but several millions. The superfluous data
on the hard disks means also additional electrical energy.
Best regards,
Oleksiy (Alex-7@OSM)
On 11/3/19 11:42, Philippe Latulippe wrote:
Hello everyone!
I like to improve OSM casually, making small fixes as I use the map in
my day-to-day life. However, doing so without any precautions would
reveal a great deal of information about where I've been, since my
edits cover exactly the places where I'm active. A look at my edit
history would reveal where I live, where I work, where I've traveled.
If last night I had added a detailed POI of a restaurant and nothing
else, one could correctly assume that I was at that restaurant
recently.
I've managed to protect my privacy somewhat by creating one account
for every neighbourhood I want to map. This is time consuming and
error prone, and it's held me back from making improvements to the
map.
Are there better ways to maintain some privacy while editing the map?
Are there some tools? Or is there a way to make edits in a way that
doesn't reveal my username to regular users?
Philippe
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