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

[Anita Graser]

On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 9:57 PM, Nyall Dawson <nyall.dawson at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> On 31 Dec 2015 7:33 AM, "Nyall Dawson" <nyall.dawson at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > The email chain below is just one example of a user who has issues
> > with QGIS after installing the OpenLayers plugin. Stackexchange is
> > filled with similar examples (See
> > http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/qgis-openlayers-plugin).
> >
> > I'm wondering if it's time we discussed the future of this plugin. Now
> > that we have a viable replacement (Quick Map Services) which doesn't
> > demonstrate these issues, should we deprecate the OpenLayers plugin
> > and remove it from the plugin repo?
>
> Can we revisit this discussion again?
>
> I'm very much in favour of:
> 1. Removing openlayers plugin from the repo asap. This plugin is broken
> and unfortunately is harming the reputation of the project, as many users
> cannot distinguish the difference between the plugin's issues and problems
> with QGIS itself (eg see
> https://twitter.com/thatkindofplace/status/742543174573260800?s=03 )
>
> 2. Rename QuickMapServices as "QuickMapServices (OpenLayers replacement)"
> on the plugin repo, so users looking for openlayers are nicely directed to
> the new plugin
>
​+1 for all the reasons above.

Thanks for reviving this Nyall!

Best wishes,
Anita​
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