How does adding third parties, eg dealers without their consent, sit with GDPR ( data protection regulations)
There is in fact no personal data processing. Technically this is nothing else than an anonymous EMail to me without a sender information.
In this email there are coordinates without reference to a person, because everybody can refer to whatever he wants, for example a sausage stand, a parking lot, a runway or even a lake.
Regarding the question of who this is or who this concerns, the data as well as the software are completely agnostic.
This can also be easily substantiated, because any point, i.e. also a parking area, can be meant. And these are certainly not persons.
So this boils down to the question what is actually personal about it. The name designation is a freely invented term, which can be "parking area", or "Bratwurst", or a nickname, or for all I care an insult like "fck yourself". The user also specifies one of three possible data types from a list. Again, this is not person-specific but merely defines what type of flag shall be shown on the map. Thousands of people can have the same flag, so there is nothing individual about it.
And the coordinates can be assigned freely, they do not allow a priori a conclusion on a person. My own entry e.g. points to a place in the town, which is not at my address, but only in the same village, and that in the middle of a crossroad - which is however completely sufficient for an overview, who comes from where.
The process is simply called "
please put a green flag at position x,y on a map and and attach a label with the text 'Bratwurst' to it".
And finally, all data is completely anonymous: no email address, no avatar, no nothing. No personal details can be derived from it.
And that's also the reason why I don't offer to enter an address. You could set a location in Google Earth (as well as in Maps) by address instead of coordinates. Google can then usually show exactly where it is, down to the house. And I would of course not have done that without registration and obligatory confirmation. Because that WOULD be personal data.
To what a user enters there, he gives his explicit consent to the publication of his input in "The GRUNT" network for the purpose of visualization in Google Earth before sending.
And the character of dealer addresses is per se "public", because the publication of the address is a prerequisite for the fulfillment of the company's purpose. Moreover, the data originate from inventories that are already published elsewhere. It is therefore hardly possible to derive any damage from further dissemination.
