[QGIS-Developer] Future of OSM integration

[Stefan Keller]

2017-10-12 11:43 GMT+02:00 Hugo Mercier <hugo.mercier at oslandia.com>:
> On 12/10/2017 11:30, Stefan Keller wrote:
...
> Support for hstore columns in qgis 3 for example could be reused in some

Yes, I'm excited to hear that hstore type is part of QGIS 3.

> And we would have to find a smart way to handle OSM relations.

Agreed. BUT: there is still the topology to handle:
Importers convert certain ways and relations to lines and polygons
and throw away the node-id just keeping the coordinates/support points.
How would you store these node-ids?

:Stefan

2017-10-12 11:43 GMT+02:00 Hugo Mercier <hugo.mercier at oslandia.com>:
> Hi,
>
> On 12/10/2017 11:30, Stefan Keller wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> 2017-10-12 10:29 GMT+02:00 Lbartoletti <lbartoletti at tuxfamily.org>:
>>> I can't write a solution but, personnally (and others I think ;)) , my little ‎dream is that QGIS replace JOSM to edit OSM data.
>>
>> Well, that will stay a dream, since OSM has a topology/no schema data
>> model. QGIS perhap can serve as an editor for very specialized use
>> cases (while being careful not to destroy OSM structures).
>>
>
> Yeah, OSM data model is hard to fit into QGIS layer model, but we are
> not that far I guess.
> Support for hstore columns in qgis 3 for example could be reused in some
> way for OSM tags.
> And we would have to find a smart way to handle OSM relations.
>
> It's a bit challenging, but that would be a very nice thing :)
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