1 Sep 2019, 17:53 by [email protected]:

> On 9/1/19 09:50, joost schouppe wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Op vr 30 aug. 2019 13:15              schreef Oleksiy Muzalyev <>> 
>> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>> >:
>>
>>> I think in future when there will be more space on servers              it 
>>> would be a 
>>>  good idea to add a possibility to attach an optional image              to 
>>> a note for 
>>>  the registered users.
>>>
>>
>> Images are a really useful addition to a written          Note. But it could 
>> be handled without having to host the          actual images. A user 
>> interface could just upload them          somewhere, and add the url to the 
>> note.
>>
>>>
>>>
>
> It certainly could be done like this. Though there will be more      clicks 
> for a note. I do not remember the exact statistics figures,      - something 
> like each excessive click drops about 20% of potential      users. That is 
> why organizations, which could afford usability      studies, implement 
> various "one-click buying" solutions.
>
>
> Images could be uploaded and stored on a separate server. There      will be 
> no other connection to production serves except HTML IMG      tags in notes. 
> An image file size could be limited at first to say      100 KB. Even if an 
> attacker manages to pass the security filters      and upload a pseudo-image 
> file with a malicious code (what is      unlikely) nothing dramatic would 
> happen. There will be no images      in notes for several hours until the OS 
> is reinstalled on the      server and the files restored from a backup.
>
>
> I was recently asked to participate in mapping of a small town in      a 
> region several thousand kilometers from my location. I could not      
> understand what kind of threes they have there. Are they      broad-leaved or 
> needle-leaved, - I could not see it from satellite      images. There were no 
> photos in its Wikipedia page. I could      neither see what type of paths 
> they have. One or two 100 KB      survey-style photos would be enough.
>
>
> ref.: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1-Click 
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1-Click>
>
>
Note that StreetComplete already has
well working version of
"Create note with linked image"
(bottom left icon allows to create note
and attach image - note also that 
StreetComplete will ask for login 
info after making about 10 edits).
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