[OSM-newbies] Rendering OSM without Adobe Flash

[john whelan]

Just rendering so your solution works perfectly.  JOSM which I use for
editing is fine and has no security issues.

Thanks John

2009/11/18 André Riedel <riedel.andre at gmail.com>:
> Do you mean rendering or editing the data?
> If you want to view prerendered OSM-data, you could use
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=50.7015&lon=-1.2887&zoom=18
>
> For editing the OSM-data you could use the following programms:
> - potlatch - flash
> - JOSM - java 1.5
> - Merkaartor - C++
>
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Editing
>
> Ciao André
>
> 2009/11/18 john whelan <jwhelan0112 at gmail.com>:
>> Try
>> http://www.openstreetmap.org/edit?lat=50.7015&lon=-1.2887&zoom=18
>> without Flash installed
>>
>> It comes up "You need a Flash player to use Potlatch, the
>> OpenStreetMap Flash editor. You can download Flash Player from
>> Adobe.com. Several other options are also available for editing
>> OpenStreetMap. "
>>
>> Thanks John
>>
>> 2009/11/18 Mike N. <niceman at att.net>:
>>> Rendering on OSM is safe - it doesn't use Flash, just JavaScript.   Editing
>>> with Potlatch does use Flash, but I believe OSM is not in the same category
>>> of user-uploadable content to trigger the exploit, but I haven't looked at
>>> the details of the exploit.
>>>
>>> --------------------------------------------------
>>> From: "john whelan" <jwhelan0112 at gmail.com>
>>> Sent: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 7:56 AM
>>> To: <newbies at openstreetmap.org>
>>> Subject: [OSM-newbies] Rendering OSM without Adobe Flash
>>>
>>>> Is it possible?  I note there is a major security problem with Adobe
>>>> Flash.
>>>>
>>>> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Flash-ActionScript-Security-Adobe-Exploit,news-5113.html
>>>
>>>
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