[Qgis-user] Importing open street map .osm files

[Clifford Snow]

On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 8:12 AM, Andre Joost <andre+joost at nurfuerspam.de>wrote:

> This is only useful with QGIS for the smaller areas. The larger files
> should be filled directly into a Postgis database with osm2pgsql.
>
> Another choice is to use GDAL to populate a spatialite db outside of QGIS,
> or use Add vector layer inside QGIS (again only useful for small areas).
>

I usually use overpass-turbo with results returned as a geojson. Geojson
file open directly in QGIS. I've not has especially good luck getting OSM
data using QGIS, but that could easily be my inexperience.

Clifford

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