[Qgis-user] 2.0 User Guide: Why is there 10 pages on the OpenStreetMap plugin?

[Richard Duivenvoorde]

On 11-10-13 21:27, Chrest, David wrote:
> I was curious as to why there is a prominent section in the 2.0 User
> Guide with 10 pages dedicated to the OpenStreetMap plugin which no
> longer exists?
> 
> QGIS 2.0 integrates OpenStreetMap import as a core functionality. As
> reported here:
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/QGIS#QGIS2_OpenStreetMap_Vectors. 
> 
> Why is there not any information on the following in the User Guide?:
> 
> 1. Menu "Vector -> OpenStreetMap -> Load data" will connect to the OSM
> server and download data.
> 
> 2. "Import topology from an XML file" below will convert your .osm file
> into a spatialite database, and create a db connection.
> 
> 3. "Export topology to Spatialite" then allows you to open the database
> connection, select the type of data you want (points, lines, polygons)
> and choose tags to import. This creates a spatialite geometry layer that
> you can then add to your project via the "add a spatialite layer" menu.
>
> Seems like this would have been obvious to include in the User Guid
> instead of an entire section that is outdated.

Hi David,

there has been a long thread in the dev list about the future of the plugin:

http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/The-future-of-OpenStreetMap-plugin-td5031372.html

for what I know (devs please correct me), the work of Martin did not get
into release 2.0?

So you are probably right that the documentation part about it should be
removed (at least for the time being).
(as an excuse: the documentation of 2.0 is not fully stabilized yet)

Writing something for the user guide is always accepted. Please sent
text to the community list, or create a pull request (if you are
familiar with git).

Regards,

Richard Duivenvoorde