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  • Squadrats used to show the actual traces of rides that other people had done if you looked at their maps. I wondered how JFrance had got some of the tiles and could see the actual traces, now it doesn't show them and only shows the coloured tiles visited.

  • See @jellybaby post above https://www.lfgss.com/comments/17586357/ for an example.

    In fact the Squadrats privacy policy clearly says

    Our App requires your outdoor activities data (such as bike rides, runs, swims, etc.) in order to be functional to you. The moment you allow the Squadrats App to read data from your fitness app (such as Strava), or allow our Mobile App to track your activity, the data from your activities will be sent to our servers. This data then becomes publicly accessible to other users of the App. By using the App you agree that your activity data becomes public.

    Which is clearly at fundamental odds with new Strava policy - but then, does the Strava policy apply to already ingested data? 🤷

  • Showing the ride traces like the example might be a problem, but showing a map with coloured tiles of where I've been may not be, so Squadrats may just have to remove the ability to display traces of other users.

    I've only wanted to look at the traces of other uses a couple of times, and that was mostly out of curiousity. I've never "needed" to look at one to see where they accessed the tile as that can be guessed most of the time. JFrance did get a couple of tiles (as have I) thanks to GPS jitter but other people's stats don't bother me (I'm trying to clean up my own data though).

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