[QGIS-Developer] OsmAnd obf data + styling ?

[Stefan Keller]

2017-10-14 23:44 GMT+02:00 Stefan Keller <sfkeller at gmail.com>:
> It's using OSM data, so why not taking the data directly from OSM e.g.
> using HOT Export [2] or OSMaxx tools [3]?
...
> [1] http://osmand.net/help/MapAddressDataStructure.html
> [2] https://export.hotosm.org/
> [3] https://osmaxx.hsr.ch/

... and for base maps I hope the Vector Tiles Reader [4] plugin
becomes better and better...

:Stefan

[4] http://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/vector_tiles_reader/

2017-10-14 23:44 GMT+02:00 Stefan Keller <sfkeller at gmail.com>:
> 2017-10-14 16:51 GMT+02:00 Richard Duivenvoorde <rdmailings at duif.net>:
>> As OsmAnd (for Android and Iphone) [0][1] is getting better and better,
>> I wonder if we/QGIS can (re)use/handle their data source and styling.
>
> According to [1] the 'obf' file has a complex structure and consists
> of 4 multiple parts:
> (vector) map tiles, transport (routing), POI, adresses.
> The OsmAnd styling seems to come with the Java binaries.
>
> What is your use case to read such a specialized format into QGIS?
>
> It's using OSM data, so why not taking the data directly from OSM e.g.
> using HOT Export [2] or OSMaxx tools [3]?
>
> :Stefan
>
> [1] http://osmand.net/help/MapAddressDataStructure.html
> [2] https://export.hotosm.org/
> [3] https://osmaxx.hsr.ch/
>
>
> 2017-10-14 16:51 GMT+02:00 Richard Duivenvoorde <rdmailings at duif.net>:
>> As OsmAnd (for Android and Iphone) [0][1] is getting better and better,
>> I wonder if we/QGIS can (re)use/handle their data source and styling.
>>
>> The format is a binary .obf file in (protobuf apparently? [2])?
>> Is this some kind of vector tiling?
>>
>> Anybody interested, or has some more info about this?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Richard Duivenvoorde
>>
>>
>> [0] http://osmand.net/
>> [1] https://github.com/osmandapp/Osmand
>> [2] https://github.com/osmandapp/OsmAnd-tools/tree/master/OsmAndMapCreator
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