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

[Paolo Cavallini]

Makes sense to me. Going to deprecate it tomorrow if nobody objects.
Thanks Nyall.

Il 14 giugno 2016 22:25:06 CEST, Anita Graser <anitagraser at gmx.at> ha scritto:
>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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