https://ikml.com/tags/privacy/ Recent content in Privacy on ikml.com Hugo en-us Sun, 25 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://ikml.com/checking-private-site-plans-without-uploading-them-anywhere/ Sun, 25 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://ikml.com/checking-private-site-plans-without-uploading-them-anywhere/ <p>Some geographic files shouldn&rsquo;t leave the building. A utility&rsquo;s network map, the plot boundaries of a development that hasn&rsquo;t been announced, the survey of a client&rsquo;s site under an NDA, the locations in an investigation. These are exactly the files people need to check before importing them somewhere, and exactly the files that can&rsquo;t go to an online converter.</p> <p>Most web-based map tools upload the file to a server to process it, and many fetch map tiles for a preview, which tells a tile server which part of the world you&rsquo;re looking at. Neither is acceptable for a file you&rsquo;ve been asked to keep private.</p>