I find myself being stalked by one mapper, (using the stalking tools, WHODIDIT: OpenStreetMap Changeset Analyzer and mapbox/osmcha) who clams edit ownership over a 3,000 sq. mile bus system, who is at least 20 miles away from me, and i am on the ground mapping, (in my profile, shows mappers up to 8 km away 4 + miles and not one of them is a mapper and have tried to friend me ?) and sending me messages that i am wrong and re editing every thing i do in this catorry. i am on the standard map, iD (in-browser editor) and he appears to be in the transit map which he has copied the routes from yahoo. From: Maarten Deen Sent: Sunday, November 3, 2019 5:15 AM To: talk@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Maintaining privacy as a casual mapper On 2019-11-03 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?
What do you use your OSM username for? Is there any reason not to create an anonymous username like anon65498? I mean, sure your mailadres suggests your name is Philippe Latulippe and I can find some people with that name on the internet, but how do I know that is your real name and not an alias? Regards, Maarten _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
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