[QGIS-Developer] Future of OSM integration

[Nathan Woodrow]

Does quick OSM give us the same download as local dataset feature. I have
never looked.

On Thu., 12 Oct. 2017, 6:26 pm Tim Sutton, <tim at kartoza.com> wrote:

> Hi
>
> > On 12 Oct 2017, at 10:20, Martin Dobias <wonder.sk at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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? :-)
>
> Sorry to say I wont miss it :-( There is quick-osm and InaSAFE also has a
> downloader and I think if we were going to have something in core, Quick
> OSM would be a better choice. So +1 from me to clean house. Let’s see if
> others have different ideas…
>
> Regards
>
> Tim
>
>
> >
> > Cheers
> > Martin
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