[Qgis-developer] The future of OpenStreetMap plugin

Martin Dobias wonder.sk at gmail.com
Sun Feb 3 11:31:20 PST 2013


On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 2:54 PM, Tim Sutton <lists at linfiniti.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> Martin I also support your ideas. From my experience the biggest
> frustration when working with OSM plugin is the unpredictability of
> whether you will be able to fetch al the data in your current extent
> before hitting the OSM API download ceiling.
>
> Have you looked at using the overpass api rather?
>
> http://overpass-api.de/
>
> Its designed for read only applications and is very fast and reliable,
> even when fetching large areas.

Hi Tim

yes that's exactly what I wanted to use for downloads :-)
Apart from not having the limit on downloaded data, it allows various
filtering options.

Martin


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