Re: Re: [Qgis-user] QGis 1.2.0 and OpenStreetMap plugin on Windows

[lukas.berka at email.cz]

Hi, guys,

First sorry for my english... i hope you will understand my words... :-)
Last half a year I've worked on OSM support for QGIS and I hope the result will be useful for someone..
It has some limitations but it's better than nothing i hope...

What is important:
OSM plugin and provider that was included in QGIS 1.2.0 release are not the latest versions.
My works on them has continued, but I have no chance to commit my last changed to QGIS SVN repository....
This was done by my friend Martin Dobias previously, but he's on his trip somewhere in Peru now....
So I give you the latest versions of OSM plugin and provider here:
    http://kostej.clancsf.org/osm_support.zip
Please someone, commit them to QGIS trunk !

Differencies between QGIS 1.2.0 OSM plugin/provider and these ones are small...
Here is the list of all changes:

- new OSM style files !! map looks pretty good now.... (finally)
- new icons !
- some texts on dialogs were changed and completed
- "Saving OSM into file" functionality was improved a little....
- now OSM Plugin verify if osm provider is available...
- fixed some problems with encoding... ascii --> utf-8
- removing all OSM layers automatically after disabling OSM plugin in plugin manager
- some dialogs has been renamed
- other small bugfixes ...

Yes, I know about fixes that Jef has done yesterday. Thanx a lot for that :-)
I didn't test plugin and provider on windows, my mistake :-//
I've merged Jef's changes into this version of OSM plugin and provider,
so you can commit them without any worries....

Thanx and have a nice day...
Lukas Berka

PS: Sorry if you received my mail more than once, i had some problems here... :)



> ------------ Původní zpráva ------------
> Od: Rahkonen Jukka <Jukka.Rahkonen at mmmtike.fi>
> Předmět: Re: [Qgis-user] QGis 1.2.0 and OpenStreetMap plugin on Windows
> Datum: 09.9.2009 08:53:59
> ----------------------------------------
> Hi,
> 
> Thanks, your answer helps me a lot because I can stop wasting time for
> trials. I am awaiting the Windows version that shows OSM features.  QGis
> supporting OSM is extremely nice thing because it is narrowing the gap
> between OSM and GIS worlds. It is for sure worth advertising on OSM wiki
> and mailing lists. For example it probably supports using local imagery
> as a background that is missing from all the existing OSM editors.
> 
> -Jukka Rahkonen-
> 
> Werner Macho wrote:
> 
> > Hi!
> > 
> > Well - I tried that on my WindowsXP right now and you're 
> > correct - Data gets NOT displayed ..
> > Even the preselected(?) Path to download the osm file to is 
> > written in "*NIX" Notation .. "/tmp/090908_165843_downloaded.osm"
> > So we can see the differences between windows "C:\" and Unix 
> > "/" - jef? 
> > any solution for that?
> > 
> > What happened to the data that should be displayed i cannot 
> > tell - I can just confirm that there should be something and 
> > believe me - on my Ubuntu Box at home - there IS something ;) 
> > But that doesn't help here either .. (Probably you have a non 
> > Windows PC somewhere where you can work on)
> > 
> > Downloading a plugin is NOT necessary any more as the OSM 
> > Provider is now in SVN trunk and gets compiled and is 
> > integrated into QGIS so no need to download anything else.
> > It seems that theres just something fishy inside OSM with Windows.
> > 
> > Hope that helps you for now
> > regards
> > Werner
> > 
> >