Task #4400
audit OpenStreetMap location sharing
| Status: | In Progress | Start date: | 01/14/2015 | |
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| Priority: | Normal | Due date: | ||
| Assignee: | hans | % Done: | 0% | |
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#1 Updated by hans almost 3 years ago
The osm.org domain name is on a server with HTTPS setup, but the osm.org name is not yet included in the HTTPS certificate [1]
You can get pretty short using a domain name supported by HTTPS:
#2 Updated by n8fr8 almost 3 years ago
Are you going to be assessing dev library projects like https://github.com/osmdroid/osmdroid as part of this?
#3 Updated by hans almost 3 years ago
osmdroid does sound interesting. But I'm already feeling like I spent too much time on this whole question already. My goal was to figure out a full stack for handling location in panic messages, everything from sending to receiving to viewing. Right now, I'm thinking the stack on the receiving side is Osmand, since it is the only map app that I can find that can download whole regions rather than tiles, since downloading tiles leaks what area you are interested in to a pretty fine accuracy. It is also one of the few that works well fully offline, and the only actively developed free software map app I could find.
Back to the question of osmdroid, I think a better approach would be to make a direct API to get tiles from Osmand. That would then happen entirely on the device, and would leak no data to the network. I don't think that API exists though.