Embedding interactive maps into trip reports?

[supranihilest]

Is there any way to embed an interactive map into a trip report? For example, I attempted to embed a Caltopo map I made, showing unmarked parking areas and trailheads, into a TR by using an HTML iframe and entering the embed code into the source code under the Report Text/View menu. This actually worked great - until I saved the report, at which point the TinyMCE parser stripped the iframe element from the code, as I expected it would. Here's some screenshots of the embed prior to saving the report, showing that the functionality is potentially there.

interactive_tr_map1.jpg (108.23 KiB) Viewed 3002 times

interactive_tr_map2.jpg (88.44 KiB) Viewed 3002 times

Note that this actually works to this point. When I select the map in the editor it shows as a media object. I can zoom in and out on the map. I can even resize it to show more of the map. The editor shows the paragraph and iframe elements (at the bottom of the second screenshot).

interactive_tr_map4.jpg (88.26 KiB) Viewed 3002 times

However when I save the TR the iframe gets stripped out, and rightfully so; one could do a lot of mischievous things with embedded iframes from unapproved sources. However, this would be an amazingly useful feature, the ability to embed interactive maps into TRs. Just look at how popular and useful the GPX upload maps are, the Google ones. I personally find those crazy useful, and the ability to embed a similar Google or Caltopo map anywhere into a TR would be so cool. Is this something that could be enabled? Something that might just need maps.google.com and caltopo.com whitelisted as embed objects? Something else? Obviously the input is being sanitized when saved (again, rightfully so to prevent various attacks) but man, I'm all jazzed up by the potential.

[BillMiddlebrook]

Yes, it would be useful to have more than the G-Map and GPX upload process that currently exists in a TR. Let me look into it to see if there’s a good way I can allow embedded map content.

Thanks!

[SchralpTheGnar]

Just say no to iframes

[supranihilest]

Yes, it would be useful to have more than the G-Map and GPX upload process that currently exists in a TR. Let me look into it to see if there’s a good way I can allow embedded map content.

Thanks!

Thank you for looking into it! If you need someone to do some testing you've got your first guinea pig right here.