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Cake day: June 25th, 2025

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  • I think we can arrive to a best-of-both-worlds solution if we just up the tolerance for when solar noon can be to 12:00±2 h. If China just had +7 instead of +8 as their timezone then 99 % of the population would have solar noon in between 10:30 and 13:30. Same applies to the entire EU (excluding Outermost Regions) if it had +1. The entirety of South America and most of the Caribbean would fit in +4. The US could definitely get away with 3 timezones instead of its current 5 (-6, -8, -10).
















  • 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