On 25 February 2010 13:30, Ian Dees <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 6:23 AM, Emilie Laffray <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> >> On 25 February 2010 12:14, Gaz Davidson <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> If there are plans for a new web editor, can avoiding Flash be part of >>> the considerations? >>> >> >> I would like to know what you suggest in order to replace Flash. While I >> dislike Flash quite a bit, I fail to see what you could actually use to >> replace it: >> - Javascript with HTML 5 >> - Silverlight >> - Java applets >> >> A full Javascript implementation is certainly possible with some of the >> new feature that are only in some browsers (read forget all browser except >> for cutting edge versions, and except IE) > > I've toyed with using Google Maps API to implement a simple editor before. > It was fairly simple to do. I stopped development because I didn't think it > would gain widespread use in the OSM community because it was created with > their API. > > I know OpenLayers provides a similar drawing API, but I was more familiar > with Google Maps API.
You could either just use svg directly or use a library like raphael or OpenLayers or Google maps, (but check out the demos at http://raphaeljs.com/) There's a problem with all the javascript approaches though and it's the memory limit, I believe this is why cartagen isn't any useful. Obviously flash, silverlight and java have memory limits too but they're higher. I don't see silverlight as a gain over flash as there's no _really_usable_ opensource implementation of either (that I know of) and so some mappers will always be excluded -- those that value software freedom or those on rare architectures. Cheers _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
