[QGIS-Developer] New plugin: Review / Procedure

[Richard Marsden]

Harrissou & Paolo,

I wasn't aware of the OSM Downloader - which I've just tried. In
common with OGR2OGR  (and native QGIS import), it imports features
according to geometry type - eg. a layer of points, a layer of
multi-polygons, etc.

I was aware of QuickOSM. It didn't work for me when I tried a few
weeks ago. I've since re-tried. From files, it has the same issues as
OSM Downloader / OGR2OGR. The Overpass interface (which is where it
seems to be really targeted) is much more powerful and flexible. Even
then I had to do things like adjust the timeout for what was a simple
query. I think Overpass Queries will be too much for the customers I'm
thinking of - even manually entering key queries is probably too much.
I'll contact the author as suggested - perhaps a third "set of
pre-programmed options" might work rather than my plugin.

Thanks

Richard














On Sat, Oct 5, 2019 at 1:49 AM Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it> wrote:
>
> Thanks Harrissou, indeed I meant
> http://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/QuickOSM/
> Cheers.
>
> On 05/10/19 07:39, Harrissou wrote:
> > Hi,
> > And there's also QuickOSM plugin that I think provides this kind of feature.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Harrissou
> >
> > Le 5 octobre 2019 07:22:10 GMT+02:00, Paolo Cavallini
> > <cavallini at faunalia.it> a écrit :
> >
> >     Hi Richard,
> >
> >
> >     On 05/10/19 04:36, Richard Marsden wrote:
> >
> >         Should I simply submit as say, v0.1, mark it experimental, and
> >         perhaps
> >         add some notes considering its early state. Or should I put it on
> >         Github (where it will also probably end up anyway) and announce it
> >         here? Or an alternative?
> >
> >
> >     I would suggest the first option is the most effective.
> >     >
> >
> >         The plugin is called OSMImporter and is intended to import
> >         layer(s) of
> >         features types from OpenStreetMap data. The original use case was to
> >         import a single Administration Boundary level (e.g. US counties)
> >         into
> >         a multipolygon layer; but there are also options for railways,
> >         water;
> >         buildings. Roads, POIs, and Land-Use are still to be implemented
> >         - and
> >         more can be easily added.
> >
> >
> >     what do you think are the limitation of the current OSM Downloader
> >     plugin? In general I would advise towards improving the existing rather
> >     than duplicating the functionality.
> >
> >     Cheers.
> >
> >
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