[OSM-talk] Potlatch 3 for desktop

[john whelan]

So for those people who are using work laptops and are forbidden to install
JAVA it is a viable alternative.

Add in a buildings_tool same as the JOSM plugin and you have something very
interesting for HOT.

Cheerio John

On Fri, Jan 1, 2021, 11:23 Richard Fairhurst <richard at systemed.net> wrote:

> On 1 Jan 2021, 16:16 +0000, John Whelan <jwhelan0112 at gmail.com>, wrote:
>
> Could you just touch on the security side for a moment.  I get the
> impression that if AIR is installed then as long as only potlatch is used
> then the security risk is very low unlike Flash.  Can I assume that a
> browser will not call on it to display part of a web site?
>
>
> It's a desktop application just like any other and has the same
> constraints and opportunities as any other application. There is no
> communication from your browser other than the one-way, user-initiated
> Remote Control mechanism as used by JOSM, Merkaartor etc. You do not need
> to install AIR yourself, the application build takes care of that.
>
> Richard
>
>
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