[Board] Privacy (was: Re: global distribution of members)

[Bob Basques]

How about washing the data down somewhat by gridding the locations down to a certain resolution for mapping.  I would also think that letting folks add their own location as an alternate method of building the map.

Bobb

BobbOn Tue Oct 22 2013 07:28:02 AM CDT, Margherita Di Leo <diregola at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Arnulf,
> 
> On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 11:59 AM, Seven (aka Arnulf)
> <seven at arnulf.us>wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Board,
> > before charging ahead and geocoding Charter Member addresses (we don't
> > have them all!) and putting them on a map we have to make sure that all
> > of us agree with having our locations displayed. In many legislations
> > the home location of a person is considered private data. In order to
> > be allowed to publish this private data (at least in Germany) we need a
> > record of that person's consent. This could be a check box on our
> > system that defaults to "not allowed" and can be changed to "yeah, go
> > ahead" by the user herself. As yet we do not have anything like that.
> > Maybe it is time that we did?
> > 
> > Since this requires an interaction with charter members anyway, why
> > can't
> charter members just fill something like this:
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Category:OSGeo_Member
> The location is provided and published on a voluntary basis, thus
> shouldn't need any privacy-legalese stuff.
> 
> cheers,
> madi
> 
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> 
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> 
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