I want to contribute more to OSM and I understand that changes need to be authored to prevent abuse. Is there any way to contribute (especially via “on-the-go” clients such as Street Complete) without essentially creating a public trail of my exact movements?
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Street complete probably isn’t the tool you want if you want to preserve privacy like this, people will be able to know where you have been. There is an option to turn off automatic uploads of answers however that will allow you to wait until a time you’re happy to submit your changes, but this does increase the chance of change collisions.
A better workflow may be to just take notes with a GPS enabled voice notes tool, or similar and updating the map with one of the standard editors (ID etc) when you’re back home.
You can use the various desktop and mobile clients to add details to areas outside of where you live, even if it’s just adding buildings from the aerial views.
As far as Street Complete goes, you can save it for specific mapping days, and go somewhere just to map it. There will still be a record of where you were, but it will be generic. e.g. If you visited Bristol for the day and did a load of mapping, that’s not going to reflect your day to day life, or any part of the day that you didn’t map 👍
Yeah that makes sense. It’s a shame as I’m really enjoying Street Complete!
Yeah, I get that. I’ve been (very slowly) mapping the valley I grew up in, so I’ve been pretty much sticking there with Street Complete. I’m not overly concerned about people figuring out where I’ve been, but I do tend to avoid mapping too close to home. I appreciate that other people have different concerns though 🙂
