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

[Alexandre Neto]

+1 on saying goodbye to openlayers plugin in favour of quickmapservices.

A ter, 14/06/2016, 22:04, Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it> escreveu:

> 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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