[Qgis-user] Ideas for QGIS plugin?

[Christopher Barker]

Paolo Cavallini wrote:
>> I've always been confused by that. But anyway, you could do it with Open
>> Street Map tiles.
> 
> Better take the vector data from OSM (see my previous suggestion): you
> can do more with that.

Not if you want a nice streetmap as a basemap for something else -- it 
would take a lot of work to get QGIS to draw a map nearly as nice as the 
OSM ones. Indeed, I don't think it's possible.

 > Or, even better, take both :)

That would be nice.

-Chris



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