[Qgis-developer] QuickOSM as default plugin for OSM data

[Vincent Picavet]

Hello,

Totally agree with Tim, especially for the Cancel button. Any large query made 
by mistake will just freeze QGIS and there is no way out except killing it.

Vincent

Le jeudi 4 septembre 2014 14:36:21, Tim Sutton a écrit :
> Hi
> 
> On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 1:28 , Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it>
> 
> wrote:
> > Il 04/09/2014 13:24, Anita Graser ha scritto:
> >>  Hi Matteo,
> >>  Thanks for raising this issue! From my (user) perspective, I totally
> >>  agree that QuickOSM is much more usable than the current core OSM
> >>  functionality (which I cannot get to work properly at all). I cannot
> >>  comment on the dev perspective too much though but it does not seem
> >>  like the current OSM core plugin is the best technical solution
> >>  either.
> > 
> > I also agree that the mainstream solution is not quite usable to me,
> > and reducing
> > duplications is always good.
> > So, if there are no good technical reasons to avoid this, I'd prefer
> > to have QuickOSM
> > in core, and current functions hidden or removed.
> > Thanks.
> 
> For me QuickOSM has basic usability issues that should be addressed
> before we consider this. e.g. no OK/Cancel/Help buttonbar. Also no
> clear button in quick query.
> 
> Also in some ways it is even more hard to use than the built in
> offering of QGIS - QuickOSM requires detailed domain knowledge of the
> OSM schema which novice users simply won't have.
> 
> I would like to see a bunch of presets available (like we have for
> roads and buildings in InaSAFE - see
> http://inasafe.org/en/user-docs/application-help/openstreetmap_downloader.h
> tml) which let you select a feature type and get it downloaded, a qml style
> applied and have the layer ready to use in QGIS.
> 
> I believe QuickOSM would be a good platform to do this on but in my
> mind as it stands it does not yet make a good replacement.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Tim