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

[PieterB]

Mathieu Pellerin wrote
> Unless we have a feature parity with the current openstreetmap tool
> (offered through vector -> openstreetmap), please do not drop it. 
> 
> 
> I agree with Mathieu.  Perhaps it is possible to keep the first step of
> the download and redirect it to add it as a vector layer?
> 
> 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).
> 
> On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 1:17 PM, Andre Joost <

> andre+joost@

> >
> 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.
>> nabble.com/Suggestion-Remove-Vector-Openstreetmap-tool-
>> from-QGIS-2-12-td5226614.html and on GIS SE http://gis.stackexchange.com/
>> questions/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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