Is there any way to access the data from beacondb.net, or is it just a service for getting the location. That would be like OpenStreetMap only providing the tiles but not the data itself.
uridl
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Is there any way to access the data from beacondb.net, or is it just a service for getting the location. That would be like OpenStreetMap only providing the tiles but not the data itself.
OSM provides all data, including who created them and at what point in time. I see that beacondb has more sensitive data, since the users have been definitively at that time in that place, but I do not see why it should be a problem to just publish no users.
In how far is beacondb any better that Google collecting that data (except for beacondb not beeing a monopolistic company that is selling your data)? The advantage of OSM is that the data is not tied to the OpenStreetMap foundation. Whenever it collapses, users can create a new instance, since the software and the data is open and publicly available.