Re: Helper apps from ePub

You could include a GPX file in the EPUB package. But you can't link to the
GPX from a content document.

Feel free to file an issue in the spec's GitHub repository (
https://github.com/w3c/publ-epub-revision/issues), which will make it
easier to track further discussion.

Thanks,

Dave

On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 12:43 PM Michael A. Peters <mpeters@domblogger.net>
wrote:

> Hi, I am working on an ePub field guide for naturalists. I did not find a
> way to include a manifest resource intended for a third party app. Part of
> me understands why that would be a BAD idea (malware) but here is my use
> case.
>
> The field guide includes various nature trails. I can use a Google Maps
> hyperlink but I would like to include a standard GPX file for people like
> me who are extremely paranoid about trackers (with good reason, just found
> out that ICE recently bought geolocation data from weather apps to learn
> the locations of undocumented immigrants and arrest them, trackers are
> killing the usefulness of the Internet). Anyway, I would like to include
> GPX files that when clicked, allows the user to import them into whatever
> app they have on phone/tablet/desktop for handling GPX files. Obviously
> this won't work with dedicated ePub viewers, but it could work on platforms
> where the ePub viewer is just one of many applications.
>
> I could host the files on the Internet and link to them within the ePub
> but that is more fragile, servers could go away or the user may not have an
> Internet connection, etc.
>
> Does ePub not have this ability? Can it be added to a future version?
> --
> Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.