On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 3:44 AM, Elizabeth Dodd <[email protected]> wrote: > I could set up a proxy - on my squid to rewrite URL > 'forbidden_image' to 'google' if I wanted.
In the latest version of JOSM it's actually quite trivial to bypass the blacklist. No need to set up a proxy at all. Of course, if I publicized the bypass then someone would likely close it. > However I have zero interest in using google imagery, so I won't. One nice thing about the Google imagery is that it's often more up-to-date than the other alternatives. And so long as you're careful and check multiple sources, no one is ever going to figure out that you used Google vs. one of your other sources. On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 8:20 AM, Richard Fairhurst <[email protected]> wrote: > > Richard Weait wrote: >> OSMF doesn't direct JOSM development. Or Potlatch or Merkaartor >> development either. > > Exactly. > > The best-known Potlatch instance is hosted on OSMF-owned hardware at the > OSMF-owned openstreetmap.org domain. OSMF could, in theory, request a > particular feature for this instance and refuse to deploy any version that > didn't contain this feature. They have, however, never done this. > > JOSM and Merkaartor and Mapzen and <insert random other editor here> > development is purely at the discretion of the development team. If you > don't like it, write/fork your own. It's all open source. While I agree that a fork is a viable option if all else fails, I believe a fork should be the *last* option, not the first. And I don't foresee it being a necessary option in this case. I don't see any reason why the developers wouldn't support a build-time option to turn on/off the blacklist, and I wouldn't consider a special build with the blacklist off (and with the default API URL set somewhere else) to be a fork. For now I'm happy with the fact that there's a loophole in the blacklist. And I'm happy to report that JOSM is quickly becoming my favorite editor. I just discovered how easy it is to switch between different imagery layers. It's really great switching between USGS, Bing, and Google in the area where I live. They each have different subtleties that complement each other, in terms of resolution, age, and coverage. I'd guess in Australia it's much the same, with the candidates bing Nearmap, Bing, and Google. _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
