[Qgis-developer] Future of OpenLayers plugin - time to deprecate?

[Paolo Cavallini]

Deprecating it makes sense to me, unless authors plan to fix the long standing issues.
Thanks for raising this.
All the best.

Il 31 dicembre 2015 06:47:08 CET, h <hdixon at bigpond.net.au> ha scritto:
>On Wed, 30 Dec 2015 22:42:27 -0500
>Randal Hale <rjhale at northrivergeographic.com> wrote:
>
>> As a non-developer if I can chip in my .02 cents worth - I think 
>> deprecating it might be a good thing. To me it was always a plugin
>> that received a lot of applause - but the one that would cause the
>> most questions ("why can't I use this imagery in map composer").
>> While I liked having access to google/bing imagery - it always made
>> me more uncomfortable having it there because of the terms of
>service.
>> 
>> I didn't know that QuickMapServices was a plugin - and after looking
>> at it I think most people will have a problem because there is no 
>> google/bing imagery in that one. In the US I have enough choices for 
>> imagery - and that might not be the case everywhere else. I'm unsure
>> how up to date MapQuest Aerial is - but better than nothing.
>> 
>
>I got caught on that one.
>In QuickMapServices>Settings there is a "Contributed Services" tile.
>Select "Get Contributed Services" and a whole lot of stuff, including
>Bing and Google are provided.
>
>To me QMS makes "Open layers" obsolete - but it needs a bit more
>documentation on how to get Bing etc!!!
>
>On principle I am against retirement, but am not aware of a strong
>argument against it for Open Layers.  (Something I have used and valued
>for quite some time..)
>H
>
>
>> Possibly add a pop-up/warning on the open layers plugin since it is 
>> popular - "We are in the process of deprecating this plugin".
>> 
>> Other than that - +1 for retirement.
>> 
>> Randy
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 12/30/2015 09:42 PM, Nyall Dawson wrote:
>> > On 31 December 2015 at 13:29, Joshua Quesenberry
>> > <engnfrc at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> If the plugin is deprecated, what is replacing it? I find the
>> >> plugin to be very useful.
>> > QuickMapServices. It's got numerous improvements over OpenLayers,
>> > including reprojection support and not breaking the map composer.
>> >
>> > Nyall
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >> -----Original Message-----
>> >> From: Qgis-developer
>> >> [mailto:qgis-developer-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Tom
>> >> Chadwin Sent: Wednesday, December 30, 2015 5:46 PM To:
>> >> qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org Subject: Re: [Qgis-developer]
>> >> Future of OpenLayers plugin - time to deprecate?
>> >>
>> >> I think deprecation and removal would be good, but for a
>> >> tangential reason: the name conflicts with OpenLayers the web
>> >> mapping library. A trivial reason at best, but probably irritating
>> >> to many, and potentially confusing to users.
>> >>
>> >>
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