[Qgis-community-team] 2.0 User Guide: Remove Chapter 17 - OSM Plugin

[Otto Dassau]

Hi David,

thanks for your hint! I guess there are not many people using qgis with
osm?, and that's why nobody has complained or changed the manual so far.

For now I removed / commented the OSM plugin chapter and added the few notes
from the OSM wiki to user_manual/working_with_vector/supported_data.html.
You will find it later online.

If you are a QGIS/OSM user, you are welcome to write some more text about
it, that we can integrate into the manual. Help is very much appreciated.

Regards
Otto

Am Fri, 11 Oct 2013 22:30:11 -0400
schrieb "Chrest, David" <davidc at rti.org>:

> I was curious as to why there is a prominent section in the 2.0 User 
> 
>  Guide with 10 pages dedicated to the OpenStreetMap plugin which no 
> 
>  longer exists?
> 
>  QGIS 2.0 integrates OpenStreetMap import as a core functionality. As 
> 
>  reported here:
> 
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/QGIS#QGIS2_OpenStreetMap_Vectors. 
> 
>  
> 
>  Why is there not any information on the following in the User Guide?:
> 
>  1. Menu "Vector - OpenStreetMap - Load data" will connect to the OSM 
> 
>  server and download data.
> 
>  2. "Import topology from an XML file" below will convert your .osm 
> 
>  file into a spatialite database, and create a db connection.
> 
>  3. "Export topology to Spatialite" then allows you to open the 
> 
>  database connection, select the type of data you want (points, lines, 
> 
>  polygons) and choose tags to import. This creates a spatialite 
> 
>  geometry layer that you can then add to your project via the "add a
> spatialite layer" menu.
> 
>  
> 
> Seems like this would have been obvious to include in the User Guide 
> 
>  instead of an entire chapter that is outdated. I noticed this right
> away. Users will then think, "so what else is wrong and will confuse
> me?"