[QGIS-Developer] Future of OSM integration

[Martin Dobias]

Hi

What do people think about the OpenStreetMap integration in Vector >
OpenStreetMap menu?

My original plan for it was to have a convenient way of downloading
and viewing of OSM data as background maps for project, however I have
a feeling that the implementation somehow stayed far behind my grand
plans :-)

The GUI is quite clunky and weird to use (it is really just a thin
wrapper of underlying classes), there are some bugs, it does not
support the less verbose .pbf format of OSM data... Also there is more
than a dozen of other OSM-related plugins now and I have not really
done much to improve the existing code.

So my question really is - shall we just get rid of it? Would anyone
miss it? :-)

Cheers
Martin