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<font size="+1">Please excuse a naive question from a new QGIS
user.<br>
I have installed QGIS (version 2.14.1-Essen, code revision
ea85bef) on my Dell desktop running Windows 7 Home Premium.
I've failed on my very first task, namely to create a layer
using data from OpenStreetMap. Very carefully following
instructions in the User Guide, I did the following three steps:<br>
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1. Vector > OpenStreetMap > Download Data:<br>
I chose Manual and entered longitudes -77.0 and -70.0, and
lat's 44.0 and 41.0, which roughly encompasses New York and
Massachusetts. After some back-and-forth of the progress bar, an
.osm file of size 337 bytes appeared on my hard drive and I got
a message saying "Download has been successful." <br>
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2. Vector > OpenStreetMap > ImportTopologyFromXML:<br>
I selected the .osm file just created and accepted the
suggested file name for the .db output, and the connection
name. The box next to "Create Connection" remained checked.
"Import has been successful" message appeared immediately, and a
.db file of size nearly 6 MB showed up on my hard drive.<br>
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3. Vector > OpenStreetMap > ExportTopologyToSpatialLite:<br>
I did this step three times, once for points, once for
polylines, and once for polygons. In each case, the input DB
file was the db file created in step 2 above. In each case,
under Exported tags I chose Load from DB, and in each case not a
single tag appeared for me to choose from. For each layer, I
got an "Export has been successful" message. However, when the
three layers (points, lines, polygons) appeared in the Layers
Panel, all of them had zero feature count and all three
attribute tables are totally empty. <br>
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What am I doing wrong ? Why don't I see the streets
of New York and Massachusetts ?<br>
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Thank you in advance for your help. I'll be embarrassed if
my error is blindingly obvious.<br>
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Steve<br>
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