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Milestone AS3 Copyright Cleanup ?
In the project Roadmap i see the Milestone AS3 Copyright Cleanup is due in 2 weeks, but in the timeline it looks as if the ongoing work is focused more on the python/javascript code.
I would rather not deploy modestmaps in any serious project without showing the proper copyright messages, maybe someone can comment on this milestone ?
If it is indeed due in a few weeks i can just wait for it, but if it will take much long i may want to resort to some alternative, like trying to get the VirtualEarthCopyright.as extra to work and leaving out the other providers....
I would somehow like to contribute to achieving this milestone if that is possible, but i suppose i am not familiar enough with the inner workings of ModestMaps to be helpful and moving this to IMapProvider will be a bit painful in the sense that all MapProvider code would be affected....
I would rather not deploy modestmaps in any serious project without showing the proper copyright messages, maybe someone can comment on this milestone ?
If it is indeed due in a few weeks i can just wait for it, but if it will take much long i may want to resort to some alternative, like trying to get the VirtualEarthCopyright.as extra to work and leaving out the other providers....
I would somehow like to contribute to achieving this milestone if that is possible, but i suppose i am not familiar enough with the inner workings of ModestMaps to be helpful and moving this to IMapProvider will be a bit painful in the sense that all MapProvider code would be affected....
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Inappropriate?The dates are aspirational - please don't wait for them.
People asked that we be more up-front about what we're working on, so I made some milestones for the things I was thinking about. But things tend to get done all at once, and you're right we're more interested in Python and JS at the moment.
VirtualEarthCopyright.as should work fine. It does rely on a weird javascript hack (which did once make sense, I promise) but it should be fine in most cases.
Here's my thinking for how the milestone will play out...
I don't imagine making copyright a requirement of IMapProvider, rather I imagine an ICopyrightProvider interface which providers would also implement if copyright was required. But I haven't got there yet - the main problem is that not all copyrights can be updated synchronously, some require a call to a web service to determine the correct credit text. I'd be happy to ignore that case, in which case the task is mainly to refactor MapCopyright.as so that the strings come from the provider classes. I don't expect Map to be affected, and I still imagine MapCopyright to be optional. -
Inappropriate?Thanks for elaborating, i agree the extras/VirtualEarthCopyright.as is easy to set up to provide the Microsoft maps with a virtual earth logo, i suppose i can look into adding the specific provider table in there myself in some ad-hoc way for now...
I think you meant MapCopyright.as that uses the javascript external interface, i'll go take a closer look at MapCopyright.as to see if i understand how that works...
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