LeBron James?

Thank you! These’ll find some use

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 like SimplyTranslate from F-Droid and RTranslate from GitHub. The second one also has a really cool live conversation mode where it can, through voice detection and TTS, interpret back and forth between two people.