Hi

> On 12 Oct 2017, at 10:20, Martin Dobias <wonder...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> What do people think about the OpenStreetMap integration in Vector >
> OpenStreetMap menu?
> 
> My original plan for it was to have a convenient way of downloading
> and viewing of OSM data as background maps for project, however I have
> a feeling that the implementation somehow stayed far behind my grand
> plans :-)
> 
> The GUI is quite clunky and weird to use (it is really just a thin
> wrapper of underlying classes), there are some bugs, it does not
> support the less verbose .pbf format of OSM data... Also there is more
> than a dozen of other OSM-related plugins now and I have not really
> done much to improve the existing code.
> 
> So my question really is - shall we just get rid of it? Would anyone
> miss it? :-)

Sorry to say I wont miss it :-( There is quick-osm and InaSAFE also has a 
downloader and I think if we were going to have something in core, Quick OSM 
would be a better choice. So +1 from me to clean house. Let’s see if others 
have different ideas…

Regards

Tim


> 
> Cheers
> Martin
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