[Qgis-developer] The future of OpenStreetMap plugin

[Even Rouault]

Le samedi 02 février 2013 17:04:52, Martin Dobias a écrit :
> On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 1:02 AM, Even Rouault
> 
> <even.rouault at mines-paris.org> wrote:
> > Le vendredi 01 février 2013 22:42:36, Martin Dobias a écrit :
> > 
> > Right, the low level concepts of OSM model are not exposed through the
> > OGR API, because it doesn't have support for topology.
> > 
> > However you could "import" ogr/ogrsf_frmts/osm/osm_parser.h,
> > ogr/ogrsf_frmts/osm/osm_parser.cpp and ogr/ogrsf_frmts/osm/gpb.h in QGIS
> > in order to benefit from a parser that does the parsing of OSM XML and
> > PBF in a transparent way from the user point of view. If you pursue that
> > route, I'd suggest that you rename (or #define) the public symbols of
> > ogr/ogrsf_frmts/osm/osm_parser.h so that they don't conflict with the
> > ones of OGR (in case there are later changes in OGR for example)
> 
> Hi Even
> 
> thanks for your hints. At first I was a bit surprised that OGR
> implements PBF reading without protoc compiler - I guess that's just
> to avoid dependency on protobuf library, right? 

Yes, I wanted to avoid that dependency as protocol buffer is very simple to 
decode at hand.

> The small size and
> high reading speed of PBF look quite promising, so maybe later I will
> look at import from PBF.
> 
> Martin