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Skrive av Simonft 2 mars 2009 på English

As this website seems to be mainly based in proving free and open-source content, it puzzles me as to why there is heavy use of Adobe Flash. This makes it impossible for the hardcore open-source junkies or the users of Linux on ppcs to contribute. While I understand that the use of Flash is easier for the developers, this should not be a problem since it would be even easier to simply use Google Maps. It would be interesting to me to hear the arguments for flash. I will end this rant by saying that regardless of Flash, this is a great idea and a great website.

Stad: Manhattan Community Board 9, Manhattan, New York County, New York, United States
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Kommentar frå SuborbitalPigeon, 2 mars 2009 kl. 23:32

Although I don't like Flash either, there is no reason to use Potlatch.

You could imagine this was even worse before Java was GPLed.

Kommentar frå Richard, 2 mars 2009 kl. 23:40

There's a million and one things I could say to that, but I'll just restrict myself to the one: Potlatch works with Gnash.

Kommentar frå Andy Allan, 3 mars 2009 kl. 11:45

Flash isn't a requirement to use OSM - it's just one option, and for most people it's the easiest. I think the only technologies that are required are HTTP and XML, and beyond that you can take your pick of implementations. We've got flash (Potlatch), Java (JOSM), C (osm2go), C++/Qt (merkaator), perl (bulkuploader.pl).......

Kommentar frå Minh Nguyen, 4 mars 2009 kl. 00:53

Also, if I remember correctly, Yahoo! gave explicit permission to use their aerial imagery for OSM. That may be one complication with using Google Maps.

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