[Qgis-user] Importing open street map .osm files

[Andre Joost]

Am 27.05.2014 18:08, schrieb G. Allegri:
> 2014-05-27 17:54 GMT+02:00 Andre Joost<andre+joost at nurfuerspam.de>:
>
>> Am 27.05.2014 17:27, schrieb G. Allegri:
>>
>>   Andre,
>>> the example about way with id=204549674 [1] reported in the issue is a
>>> good
>>> one. The downloaded OSM contains the way and all its nodes, but it isn't
>>> passed to the polylines layer.
>>>
>>
>> If you take the download link at
>> <http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/204549674>
>> it gives you the node numbers, but no coordinates. So you have to add a
>> /full to get them:
>>
>> <http://www.openstreetmap.org/api/0.6/way/204549674/full>
>
>
> Ok, it's a complete view but the point is the same: 35 nodes, completely
> inside the area. They are correctly downloaded from the OSM plugin, but not
> imported.
>

I had not seen you are referencing to https://hub.qgis.org/issues/8878.

I just made a test, confirming the poor quality of the plugin import, 
but then saw that Add Vector layer does the last step in a far better 
way. I just updated the ticket with that.

Greetings,
André Joost