[QGIS-Developer] Future of OSM integration

[Mathieu Pellerin]

Martin,

I was a pretty heavy user of this feature/plugin until a few months ago
when it stopped working under master. I moved to loading OSM through the
OGR provider (customized via osmconf.ini) and never looked back. I would
love for QGIS to regain some sort of native OSM data import, maybe through
processing, but ATM it seems the best path forward is to get rid of it.

Math

On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 3:20 PM, 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? :-)
>
> Cheers
> Martin
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