[Qgis-developer] [info] openstreetmap shapefile data

[Richard Duivenvoorde]

Hi Plugin/OSM guru's,

on the osm-dev list somebody made a mobile application for osm-data AND 
osm-tiles using Qt: 
http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/dev/2008-July/010894.html
They speak about a QMapControl for easy OSM-tile display.
Would be great to have a pythonplugin for adding OSM-tiles as background 
also :-) ?

Regards,
Richard Duivenvoorde


Martin Dobias wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 1:00 PM, Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it> wrote:
>> kimaidou ha scritto:
>>
>>> In this page, you will find daily updates of european openstreetmap data in
>>> shapefile format.
>>> It is so good I couldn't close my mouth for a while....
>>> I let you have a look !!
>>>
>>> So it is a bit different from directly accessing openstreetmap data, but for
>>> a start...
>> The idea behind the plugin is to use OSM data directly, including the
>> editing and the upload of new traces, thus effectively replacing the
>> "official" josm (java, brrr) editing tool.
>> It shouldn't be *too* difficult: the OSM XML is well documented, it
>> should "only" be parsed back and forth.
> 
> Indeed, it's not difficult. This evening I've made a simple prototype
> plugin for inspiration, check it from this repository:
> http://mapserver.sk/~wonder/qgis/plugins-sandbox.xml
> 
> The plugin itself is very simple, doesn't take in account any tags nor
> relations between objects, it just parses all nodes and ways and
> creates appropriate layers. Btw. parsing big files (e.g. 50 MB xml)
> takes quite a long time, there will be some inefficiencies.
> 
> You need recent SVN sources which include memory provider. To use it,
> first get some file with OSM data in XML format (with current API
> version = 0.5). There are some available for download on internet or
> you can retreive them directly from OSM server like this by specifying
> bounding box:
> http://api.openstreetmap.org/api/0.5/map?bbox=11.54,48.14,11.543,48.145
> (bounding box must have sides smaller than 0.25 degree)
> 
> I don't think I'll be continuing the development, I just hope that it
> can serve as a starting point and some volunteer will take it and
> improve greatly :-)
> Finally, in a week I'm leaving for vacations, I'm going to be offline
> for about two months so there's no time either.
> 
> Cheers
> Martin
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