disable the download option?

[Aaron Fraint]

Hello,

I'm wondering if there's an easy way to disable the option to download the data?

Although I don't have it linked on the website, if I use the URL: /download/places.csv it still provides the data download. Is there a setting I can place into my YML file to turn this functionality off?

Thanks a lot!

- Aaron Fraint

[Hibai Unzueta]

2013/3/18 Aaron Fraint <aaron....@gmail.com>:

> I'm wondering if there's an easy way to disable the option to download the
> data?

If I may ask, why do you want to disable the downloading option?

Regards,
HIBAI

[Aaron Fraint]

I would like to share my data with the public, but only after I've had the opportunity to run a few cleanup scripts first.

Most importantly, I want to remove the email addresses that were submitted, but beyond that, I'd also want to find and remove any bogus entries. Once I do this, I intend to open the data back up so it can be downloaded.

If it's not possible to disable the download URL, no big deal. Just thought I'd see if there was a setting or method already built into shareabouts for this.

Thanks!

Aaron

[Frank Hebbert]

Hi Aaron --

It's not possible to disable the download link at present (good to know there's demand for this as a future feature).

Bear in mind that everything in your map is accessible to anyone who has a basic understanding of web development and can use the browser console. Everything you gather from map users, including emails if you're asking for them, is viewable when your map connects to the API. Even if your template doesn't show emails, they're still in the data returned from the server. (Not true for some of the older maps like the Chicago bike share site, which is running on an older codebase where we had a different user model). 

We're planning on building better handling for user info, making the user and her details separate to the info submitted to the map, so it stays private, and we welcome suggestions for features we should include. 

Frank

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