Hi,
I'm the original author of the patch concerning Live Map and check
version update.
To answer your question :
*Christoph Biedl wrote :*
*And as long as QLGT connects to www.qlandkarte.org
<http://www.qlandkarte.org> during each*
*application start, tile usage privacy isn't any of my major concerns.*
The idea was to provide the users, a database of online map easy to
install and as an additionnal functionnality a way to know if the current
qlandkarte version is up to date.
Actually to answer this feature, a webservice written in PHP
available at this address
http://www.qlandkarte.org/webservice/qlandkartegt.php?wsdl is available to
collect information about latest maps available and latest qlandkartegt
version available.
Because all users are not registered in the mailing list I was
thinking it was a good idea. And why not making Qlandkarte connect directly
to sourceforge.net ? Because Qlandkarte has a website and sourceforge is a
source website among other. If people are still in older revision and the
map or executable hosting change, we can still provide this functionnality
by simply updating the webservice.
So as you say, qlandkarte connect on start to check if a newer version
is available, maybe the awkwardness was to provide this functionnality
without telling the user.
What I can propose is to tell the user at the first start about this
functionnality and let him decide to activate it on each start or simply go
to the help menu and use "check for update.." menu action.
Tell me what you prefer and I will send back a patch to update this.
And again sorry for the misunderstanding ...
Fabrice
2014-01-28 Christoph Biedl <[email protected]>
> Oliver Eichler wrote...
>
> > But I will take my freedom to keep the agent anonymous by mimicking
> > a 0815 agent. If any service provider has a problem with that,
> > contact me. I will remove the service asap. But I will not sacrifice
> > my privacy more than necessary. Especially not because some users
> > want to be perform blind obediance.
>
> Please re-consider your position on that.
>
> The mapnik tile policy might be questionable to some extent,
> nevertheless it still makes sense and does not put inacceptable
> burdens onto those who want to benefit from that service.
>
> You've stated that you do deliberately violate that policy. This
> will just end up in places where no one wants to be: The tile server
> administrators might tighten their filters again, likely without
> prior notice, breaking this program another time. But the negative
> feedback will hit QLGT, anything between "It just doesn't work" and
> "They had it coming".
>
> Additionally, I cannot follow your privacy argument. The major
> privacy breach is any tile server administrator can see which tiles
> are fetched from a certain IP address, but that's inevitable. Making
> the application used visible is rather minor in comparison.
>
> And as long as QLGT connects to www.qlandkarte.org during each
> application start, tile usage privacy isn't any of my major concerns.
>
> Christoph
>
>
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