[Qgis-community-team] 2.0 User Guide: Remove Chapter 17 - OSM Plugin

[Chrest, David]

I was curious as to why there is a prominent section in the 2.0 User 

 Guide with 10 pages dedicated to the OpenStreetMap plugin which no 

 longer exists?

 QGIS 2.0 integrates OpenStreetMap import as a core functionality. As 

 reported here:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/QGIS#QGIS2_OpenStreetMap_Vectors. 

 

 Why is there not any information on the following in the User Guide?:

 1. Menu "Vector - OpenStreetMap - Load data" will connect to the OSM 

 server and download data.

 2. "Import topology from an XML file" below will convert your .osm 

 file into a spatialite database, and create a db connection.

 3. "Export topology to Spatialite" then allows you to open the 

 database connection, select the type of data you want (points, lines, 

 polygons) and choose tags to import. This creates a spatialite 

 geometry layer that you can then add to your project via the "add a
spatialite layer" menu.

 

Seems like this would have been obvious to include in the User Guide 

 instead of an entire chapter that is outdated. I noticed this right
away. Users will then think, "so what else is wrong and will confuse
me?"

 

David Chrest

Research GIS Analyst

RTI International

3040 Cornwallis Rd, PO Box 12194

Research Triangle Park, NC  27709-2194

 

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