[Qgis-user] Reverting to version 2.2 from 2.4

[Laura O'Grady]

Thanks for your response Damien. I need both open layers and OSM to work.
The OSM plugin has just been updated and I upgraded it. I'm not sure from
your response if you have both of these plugins working on 2.4 and what OS
you are using. 

 

I should have added that I already followed the instructions posted earlier
this month on this list by John Harrop. I continue to get errors when using
the open layers/OSM plug-in. It may be because we are using different
operating systems (he's on a Mac and I'm on a PC).

 

If anyone is interested in what happened I'll attempt to recreate what I did
here. 

 

When I was using OSM/Open Layers before in QGIS 2.2 I used the tutorial
posted here: http://www.qgistutorials.com/en/docs/downloading_osm_data.html.

 

I was able to follow it perfectly and download data for the area I was
interested in (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), a database was created and I was
then able to query SpatialLite for specific points/tags for a project I'm
working on with my local OSM community. The files I saved in QGIS 2.2 will
not work in 2.4. When I opened the 2.2 version .qgs file in 2.4 I got an
error message stating that if I saved this project in the new version all
functionality may be lost. I tried it anyway and sure enough it no longer
worked.

 

When I attempted to re-create this process in 2.4 using the instructions
posted here by John I was able to load Open Street Map as the basemap I
could not download the data. I tried loading it from the canvas (link to
screen dump with error):

 

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/10032664/error%20map%20canvas.png

 

and loading it from the map layer (link to screen dump with error):

 

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/10032664/error%20from%20layer.png

 

If you look in the bottom left corner of the "Download Open Street Data"
dialogue boxes in both screen dumps you will see that they have "0.0 MB"
already hard coded. I could not remove or adjust this number. I didn't
attempt the manual entry because this same issue regarding the 0.0 MB
appeared again with this option checked off. As I can't get the data
downloaded I cannot move forward with downloading the tags I'm interested
in.

 

Any help on either further troubleshooting the open layers/OSM issue or my
original question about reverted to version 2.2 is appreciated. Thanks.

 

Laura

 

From: Damien Stephens [mailto:Damien.Stephens at sandfire.com.au] 
Sent: August-19-14 3:04 AM
To: Laura O'Grady; qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: RE: [Qgis-user] Reverting to version 2.2 from 2.4

 

Hi if all you want is to get open layers back. Just upgrade the plugin
(plugins\manage and install plugins\   select  open layers plugin then
upgrade.

The layers move to the WEB menu from the PLUGINS menu across the top, but
other than that they are identical, and I think there are improvements in
how the open layers plugin works as well - seems to be more stable. I cant
tell which OSM plugin you need but I guess they will have been upgraded too.

 

cheers

 

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[mailto:qgis-user-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Laura O'Grady
Sent: Tuesday, 19 August 2014 6:21 AM
To: qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org <mailto:qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org> 
Subject: [Qgis-user] Reverting to version 2.2 from 2.4

 

Hi all,

 

I'm using a Windows 7 64-bit machine. I downloaded the installer
(osgeo4w-setup-x86_64.exe) in the fall of 2013 when I purchased, "Learning
QGIS 2.0" book in the fall of 2013. I only recently installed it and was
slightly surprised to see version 2.2 install instead of 2.0. I assumed this
would not be an issue for the tutorials I was going to use to teach myself
the program.  

 

I was following one particular QGIS tutorial online through Canvas when I
was required to install a package in order to complete the task. As a result
QGIS upgraded to version 2.4, which broke some plug-ins (specifically open
layers, OSM) that I was using. 

 

I would like to know what is the best method to complete the following
tasks:

 

(1). Remove version 2.4 and ensure there are no hooks remaining on my
computer

(2). Re-install version 2.2 (I'm assuming it would be download it from here:
http://qgis.org/downloads/ , specifically the file
QGIS-OSGeo4W-2.2.0-1-Setup-x86_64.exe, dated February 26, 2014)

(3). Ensure that adding packages in the future doesn't automatically upgrade
my version to 2.2 to 2.X.

 

I can understand the generic installer I was using a few months ago to
install what I thought was 2.0 actually installed 2.2 but I think I should
have been asked/warned about the version change from 2.2 to 2.4. Thanks.

 

Laura

 

 

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