koljalanger

Hi,

many thanks for your help. I really appreciate it!

Initially, I chose mapquest as image provider but switched back to OSM now after your response. I agree with your opinion and I am not so scared that OSM would actually collect and analyze the data (even though one would still have to find a way to allow the website visitor to choose whether to deliver data to third party servers).

Hi,
many thanks for your fast response.

Maybe I should rephrase my question once more.

I don’t understand the details how the process of providing map information works (who provides the tiles; what are mapquest and/or leaflet doing in the process; where does the plugin retrieves its information from).

However, what I learned over the past week is that the google maps API might not be fully GDPR compliant as user data (not my own but those from the persons that browse to my website) is transmitted to google.

So the key question would be: Can we somehow infer what type of information is sent to the mapquest severs to which a connection is definitely established? Moreover, what is with leaflet?
And last but not least, if IP addresses are forwarded to the servers of mapquest, does the API you use allow by any means to anomymize them?

I’m slightly lost in the GDPR jungle and hope that we step by step can bring some light into this dark matter.

Best,
Ralf