<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Hi<br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 9:23 AM Marco Bernasocchi <<a href="mailto:marco@opengis.ch">marco@opengis.ch</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p>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</p></div></blockquote>I am personally +1 to remove it:</div><div class="gmail_quote">- native QGIS 3D view has most of the functionality + a lot more to offer<br></div><div class="gmail_quote">- there have been no real updates besides compilation / code style fixes in last ~4 years</div><div class="gmail_quote">- dependencies on OpenSceneGraph and osgEarth have always caused troubles</div><div class="gmail_quote">- we have been on the road to kill any internal c++ plugins in QGIS source tree<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">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.<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">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...</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Regards</div><div class="gmail_quote">Martin</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div></div>