[QGIS-Developer] New plugin: Review / Procedure

[Paolo Cavallini]

Glad suggestions helped.
As this demonstrates, having many plugins is confusing for users and developers alike, hence the need to avoid duplication.
Cheers.

On 6 October 2019 04:43:17 EEST, Richard Marsden <winwaed at gmail.com> wrote:
>Harrissou & Paolo,
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>I wasn't aware of the OSM Downloader - which I've just tried. In
>common with OGR2OGR  (and native QGIS import), it imports features
>according to geometry type - eg. a layer of points, a layer of
>multi-polygons, etc.
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>I was aware of QuickOSM. It didn't work for me when I tried a few
>weeks ago. I've since re-tried. From files, it has the same issues as
>OSM Downloader / OGR2OGR. The Overpass interface (which is where it
>seems to be really targeted) is much more powerful and flexible. Even
>then I had to do things like adjust the timeout for what was a simple
>query. I think Overpass Queries will be too much for the customers I'm
>thinking of - even manually entering key queries is probably too much.
>I'll contact the author as suggested - perhaps a third "set of
>pre-programmed options" might work rather than my plugin.
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>Thanks
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>Richard
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>On Sat, Oct 5, 2019 at 1:49 AM Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it>
>wrote:
>>
>> Thanks Harrissou, indeed I meant
>> http://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/QuickOSM/
>> Cheers.
>>
>> On 05/10/19 07:39, Harrissou wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> > And there's also QuickOSM plugin that I think provides this kind of
>feature.
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> > Harrissou
>> >
>> > Le 5 octobre 2019 07:22:10 GMT+02:00, Paolo Cavallini
>> > <cavallini at faunalia.it> a écrit :
>> >
>> >     Hi Richard,
>> >
>> >
>> >     On 05/10/19 04:36, Richard Marsden wrote:
>> >
>> >         Should I simply submit as say, v0.1, mark it experimental,
>and
>> >         perhaps
>> >         add some notes considering its early state. Or should I put
>it on
>> >         Github (where it will also probably end up anyway) and
>announce it
>> >         here? Or an alternative?
>> >
>> >
>> >     I would suggest the first option is the most effective.
>> >     >
>> >
>> >         The plugin is called OSMImporter and is intended to import
>> >         layer(s) of
>> >         features types from OpenStreetMap data. The original use
>case was to
>> >         import a single Administration Boundary level (e.g. US
>counties)
>> >         into
>> >         a multipolygon layer; but there are also options for
>railways,
>> >         water;
>> >         buildings. Roads, POIs, and Land-Use are still to be
>implemented
>> >         - and
>> >         more can be easily added.
>> >
>> >
>> >     what do you think are the limitation of the current OSM
>Downloader
>> >     plugin? In general I would advise towards improving the
>existing rather
>> >     than duplicating the functionality.
>> >
>> >     Cheers.
>> >
>> >
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