[QGIS-Developer] Future of OSM integration

[Stefan Keller]

2017-10-12 11:50 GMT+02:00 Mathieu Pellerin <nirvn.asia at gmail.com>:
> 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.

That's IMHO not a bad strategy for QGIS.

:Stefan

P.S. Just in case  - and another shameless plug (besides Vector Tiles
Reader): There exists the HOT Export Tool (https://export.hotosm.org/)
and my OSMaxx tool (https://osmaxx.hsr.ch/) to export arbitrary
regions in "normalized" GIS formats (including aka hstore attribute
"tag"), like GeoPackage.



2017-10-12 11:50 GMT+02:00 Mathieu Pellerin <nirvn.asia at gmail.com>:
> 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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