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[โ€“] MTK@lemmy.world 19 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Question: how does one not doxx them selves when mapping their local area? Or is it not an issue because you don't really provide any info past that?

[โ€“] lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You can disable auto-upload. I collect 50 or 100 tasks and upload them at once. So, it's at least not possible to know where I currently am, just where I was a few days or weeks ago.

I kind of completed tasks in a larger area. But which city I'm living in is kind of obvious if you look at my OSM account.

[โ€“] jbk@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 3 days ago

So, it's at least not possible to know where I currently am, just where I was a few days or weeks ago.

Some OSM edits add the date of the survey though, so it's possible to know when you were at a place and e.g. confirmed its opening hours. But honestly no one's gonna doxx you or whatever lol

[โ€“] Fiery@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 3 days ago

To properly link your mapping to your identity, someone would both need to be able to link whatever online username you're using to the one in street complete. Which could be either easy or very hard depending on how correlated they are (same username maybe?)

And even then the accuracy will probably not be great, maybe up to the city. Any more specific than that will be hard unless the edits are very obviously centered around a street.

TLDR: probably not too bad of an issue

[โ€“] Cyber@feddit.uk 6 points 3 days ago

Best thing: map little bits of any area you're in and then you're not pin pointing yourself.

But as someone else pointed out, you don't have to upload at the time you're doing the clarifications, so it's very low risk of someone working out where you are.

[โ€“] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 days ago

I just use a unique username for it

[โ€“] thevoidzero@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

You can just search me up and get my city easily, so my open street contribution won't help that much in narrowing it down. Honestly the public records are enough that people can just follow me around from work, probably.