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Definitely! Privacy is a human right

It'd be quite hard to pinpoint your place of abode if you live in a mildly dense area, and you can always avoid doing noticeably more frequent/dense/intricate mapping centered around your house

As I said you can also delay the upload of changesets until you're back from vacation if it's only for a few days/weeks (as well as using different accounts for when you're away)

I also think someone analysing OSM changesets like that would be more trouble than it's worth and there's lower hanging fruit out there

You can make it anonymous by creating an account with a different username that you don't use anywhere else and a burner e-mail via SimpleLogin or AnonAddy or 10minutemail. Maybe also a VPN? And in the case of StreetComplete, uploading changesets manually at random times.

There's no way to not make a public trail, that's just how mapping works, but you can make it really hard to trace back to you. You also have to understand that no surveillance capitalism is at play here, there's no actor that will consume this data and use it to feed you ads or content.

Any tips on how to learn to use JOSM? I feel that I should take the leap from iD, but the learning curve is scary

I'm just some guy that doesn't like Europe being reliant on the US and I am also against Russia

That's the point, figure out a way to stop relying on them. It'd have been better if it weren't necessary to have a wake-up call like this, but if that's what it takes to achieve that result, I'm okay with it

I like this! It's a good thing for the EU to decouple from the US. The EU's military budget is definitely good enough, just very badly managed. This will push the EU to get its shit together and achieve proper autonomy. Only then it'll be able to enter international agreements on equal footing with other superpowers and not have it be a serfdom relationship in exchange for protection