

The City of Worcester’s Cultural Development Division, in collaboration with City Manager Edward M. We will continue to improve our geomasking and anonymization efforts over time.Deadline Extended for Applications to Worcester’s Youth Poet Laureate Program Open datasets that have been geomasked are labelled as such. This creates a new map where each point is moved a little bit away from its original location in a random direction. The amount of randomness we add depends on several factors, including the area of interest, number of data points, and the sensitivity of the dataset. In these cases, we "geomask" spatial data by adding a little bit of randomness to the latitude and longitude coordinates.

Sometimes, we want to release spatial data (which is useful for creating maps), but don't want to reveal precise locations.

Yet we also want to provide the public with as much interesting and useful data as possible. Geomasking allows us to protect privacy while still allowing visitors to use open data to create useful maps and analyses. Cambridge's open data program is committed to ensuring privacy and protecting personal information. How does Cambridge think about protected data?
