[QGIS-Developer] Globe Plugin

[Sandro Mani]

On 20.05.20 17:02, Martin Dobias wrote:
> Hi
>
> On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 9:23 AM Marco Bernasocchi <marco at opengis.ch 
> <mailto:marco at opengis.ch>> wrote:
>
>     As one of the grandfathers of the original Globe plugin, I'd say
>     ditch it - BUT... let's see what Matthias,  Martin and  Sandro
>     think since they probably are the ones that are most up-to-date on
>     can now be done with the 3d map canvas and globe
>
> I am personally +1 to remove it:
> - native QGIS 3D view has most of the functionality + a lot more to offer
> - there have been no real updates besides compilation / code style 
> fixes in last ~4 years
> - dependencies on OpenSceneGraph and osgEarth have always caused troubles
> - we have been on the road to kill any internal c++ plugins in QGIS 
> source tree
>
> The only major piece of functionality that's not in the native QGIS 3D 
> view is the "earth as a globe" view - so there may be some users that 
> may be missing that functionality.
>
> So if we decide to remove the plugin, the question is whether to 
> remove it ASAP or wait until QGIS 4.0 or wait until globe support is 
> in native QGIS 3D...

No objections to removing on my part.

Best
Sandro

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