[Potlatch-dev] Various questions

[Richard Fairhurst]

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Nop wrote:

> Well, using a GPX track fresh from the GPS as a background layer and
> mapping away is my most frequent use case (as in 99%). Doing this by
> declaring crossdomain permissions is not feasible as it would have to
> be done for every possible webspace a user might have to upload his
> GPX. And I don't upload my GPX to OSM for privacy reasons. However I
> can easily upload the GPX track onto my server so it is available in
> the same domain as P2.
>
> But I guess that there currently is no way to tell the URL of the
> uploaded GPX to P2 when opening it so it shows up as a background layer
> from the beginning.
>
> If so, a parameter to hand over an URL for a GPX vector layer would be
> my most important feature request. Guessing the URL and entering it
> manually is highly inconvenient. :-)

Good idea. I've added it to the TODO.

Flash Player 10 can in theory also load files from your local hard drive:
http://www.mikechambers.com/blog/2008/08/20/reading-and-writing-local-files-in-flash-player-10/
which would be a neat solution to this 'use case'.

I'd like to keep P2 compatible with FP9.5 where possible, not least  
because I sometimes develop on a PowerPC Mac, and FP10 Debug Player  
isn't available for PPC. But it might be possible to make it backward  
compatible. Will look into it.

crossdomain.xml files are a royal PITA.

cheers
Richard