On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 9:11 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Martin, > > Good to see this plugin is getting some love ! > > Le 2013-02-01 01:26, Martin Dobias a écrit : > >> 2. instead of having a special provider, we could reuse an existing >> provider for viewing OSM layers - SpatiaLite seems to be the most >> viable candidate. Once data is imported from XML into a database, it >> should be possible to create one or more views (SpatiaLite tables) of >> the database (e.g. all polygons or linestrings with "highway" tag) > > > Did you had a look to the OGR driver made by Even Rouault ? The use of PBF > is possible (wayyyy smaller and faster to import) and the performance are > quite good when working on a big osm dataset.
I only know that it exists, I do not know much more about it. Compared to OGR support which only allows fetching of processed features, my approach is to allow also low-level access. With low level API you could access the underlying topology, fetch all tags of a node/way or access relations - I guess none of that is possible with OGR. It seems that the main use case for OGR is just to allow conversion to a different (more friendly) format. And yeah, I have thought about PBF format, too. Maybe later... Regards Martin _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
