[Qgis-user] Ideas for QGIS plugin?

[Martin Dobias]

On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 11:43 PM, Christopher Barker
<Chris.Barker at noaa.gov> wrote:
> 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.

Chris,
could you please explain your statement why it isn't possible?

Martin