[Qgis-developer] Deprecation of the Vector - OpenStreetMap - Importer

[Etienne Trimaille]

2016-09-20 9:55 GMT+02:00 Mathieu Pellerin <nirvn.asia at gmail.com>:

> One useful feature that isn't available through OGR (or QuickOSM last time
> I trieD) is the exporting of individual tags as fields (versus only
> creating a few fields and an "other_tags" field).
>

FYI, QuickOSM is not creating the "other_tags". There is a special parser
in the plugin to create individual fields.


>
> On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 1:17 PM, Andre Joost <andre+joost at nurfuerspam.de>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> This topic pops up regularly on the mailing lists, but nothing happened
>> lately.
>> The OS import tool is still not able to load features with node numbers
>> exceeding the 32bit-unsigned limit, see http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/
>> wiki/64-bit_Identifiers . As a consequence, features get lost, or lines
>> and polygons don't get imported at all, as soon as recently added nodes are
>> involved. This makes the importer quite useless.
>>
>> Following the discussion here at http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabbl
>> e.com/Suggestion-Remove-Vector-Openstreetmap-tool-from-QGIS-
>> 2-12-td5226614.html and on GIS SE http://gis.stackexchange.com/q
>> uestions/211000/is-there-a-qgis-tool-that-handles-osm-64-bit
>> -identifiers-correctly I suggest to drop the 3-part importer from the
>> Vector menu.  Add vector layer and the QuickOSM plugin can import OSM data
>> without the 32-bit limitation.
>>
>> It would be good to drop the item in the upcoming QGIS 2.18.
>>
>> Alternatively, somebody would have to change the data type for osm_id in
>> the spatialite export (part 2 of the 3-part-importer) from integer to long
>> integer or text.
>>
>> Greetings,
>> Ande Joost
>>
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