+1 for deprecating.
I think the "popularity" of OpenLayers only derives from the fact that it
was the only plugin available serving basemaps for a long time and that it
is mentioned all around the web in tutorials etc.
Most of my collegues with less experience frequently step into the traps
and digitize stuff only to find later that the result is shifted or the
map is not printable.
I skipped it already a long time ago and tried to compensate it by finding
other sources like WMS etc which is not so easy over here in Germany
(especially since the built-in WMS Server Search results are completely
outdated for a long time).
Since the QuickMapServices plugin is there, I always recommend that.
If this plugin would become the "successor" of OpenLayers, it would be
nice to know why those most popular sources like Bing etc are "hidden" in
the contributed services. Legal issues?
I already proposed to the developers to rename their plugin to "Basemaps",
cause thats what it is actually about and which is a lot easier to
understand and memorize.
Cheers
Bernd
Am 31.12.2015, 07:17 Uhr, schrieb Paolo Cavallini <cavall...@faunalia.it>:
Deprecating it makes sense to me, unless authors plan to fix the long
standing issues.
Thanks for raising this.
All the best.
Il 31 dicembre 2015 06:47:08 CET, h <hdi...@bigpond.net.au> ha scritto:
On Wed, 30 Dec 2015 22:42:27 -0500
Randal Hale <rjh...@northrivergeographic.com> wrote:
As a non-developer if I can chip in my .02 cents worth - I think
deprecating it might be a good thing. To me it was always a plugin
that received a lot of applause - but the one that would cause the
most questions ("why can't I use this imagery in map composer").
While I liked having access to google/bing imagery - it always made
me more uncomfortable having it there because of the terms of service.
I didn't know that QuickMapServices was a plugin - and after looking
at it I think most people will have a problem because there is no
google/bing imagery in that one. In the US I have enough choices for
imagery - and that might not be the case everywhere else. I'm unsure
how up to date MapQuest Aerial is - but better than nothing.
I got caught on that one.
In QuickMapServices>Settings there is a "Contributed Services" tile.
Select "Get Contributed Services" and a whole lot of stuff, including
Bing and Google are provided.
To me QMS makes "Open layers" obsolete - but it needs a bit more
documentation on how to get Bing etc!!!
On principle I am against retirement, but am not aware of a strong
argument against it for Open Layers. (Something I have used and valued
for quite some time..)
H
Possibly add a pop-up/warning on the open layers plugin since it is
popular - "We are in the process of deprecating this plugin".
Other than that - +1 for retirement.
Randy
On 12/30/2015 09:42 PM, Nyall Dawson wrote:
On 31 December 2015 at 13:29, Joshua Quesenberry
<engn...@gmail.com> wrote:
If the plugin is deprecated, what is replacing it? I find the
plugin to be very useful.
QuickMapServices. It's got numerous improvements over OpenLayers,
including reprojection support and not breaking the map composer.
Nyall
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Future of OpenLayers plugin - time to deprecate?
I think deprecation and removal would be good, but for a
tangential reason: the name conflicts with OpenLayers the web
mapping library. A trivial reason at best, but probably irritating
to many, and potentially confusing to users.
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