[OSM-talk] QR code && http://cm.ly

[Steven Le Roux]

On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Patrick Petschge <osm at petschge.de> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> >> Petschge on irc://irc.freenode.net/#osm was asking how to create a QR
> >> code. He wanted GPL-friendly Ruby code to be able to create QR codes
> >> for shortlinks on the main site (thus GPL-friendly and Ruby needed at
> >> the same time).
>
> > There is another solution:
> >
> >
> http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=qr&chs=200x200&chl=http://example.com
>
> IF (and that is a big if as I'm not sure if it is worth the effort) I
> implement that I'm not going to rely on some webservice. And most
> certainly not a webservice by google. Call me paranoid if you want, but I
> find it an incredibly bad idea to trust google with something like that.
>

Where is the need to trust ? This is not a binary ordinary picture... this
is a code, based on standard, and you can read it... control it, etc...

The only fact is google has a log, and a possibly new url to ask webTable to
crawl...


>
>
> Patrick "Petschge" Kilian
>
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