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

[Tim Sutton]

Hi


+1 From me too, but I do think it would be good to communicate with Pirmin first before simply removing OpenLayers plugin (I am not sure if he has been following this thread).

Regards

Tim

> On 15 Jun 2016, at 02:43, Mathieu Pellerin <nirvn.asia at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> +1 too, for removing openlayers and looking into putting efforts to come up with a native TMS driver.
> 
> Suggestion: instead of just removing openlayers from the plugin repository, could we work with the author (if he's reachable and willing) for him to publish a new plugin update stating that a/ the plugin is discontinued, and b/ users should migrate to quickservicemap?
> 
> On 15 Jun 2016 06:05, "Alexandre Neto" <senhor.neto at gmail.com <mailto:senhor.neto at gmail.com>> wrote:
> +1 on saying goodbye to openlayers plugin in favour of quickmapservices.
> 
> 
> A ter, 14/06/2016, 22:04, Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it <mailto: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 <mailto:anitagraser at gmx.at>> ha scritto:
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 9:57 PM, Nyall Dawson <nyall.dawson at gmail.com <mailto:nyall.dawson at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
> On 31 Dec 2015 7:33 AM, "Nyall Dawson" <nyall.dawson at gmail.com <mailto: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 <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 <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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Tim Sutton
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