Re: [Qgis-developer] Deprecation of the Vector - OpenStreetMap - Importer

2016-09-21 Thread Anita Graser
On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 8:05 PM, Matthias Kuhn wrote: > I agree that we shouldn't ship broken things like this. > > Just a sidenote, I'm always very careful when reading "from a user > perspective" as an argument in a discussion. > I'm still looking for "the user" and the

Re: [Qgis-developer] Deprecation of the Vector - OpenStreetMap - Importer

2016-09-21 Thread Matthias Kuhn
I agree that we shouldn't ship broken things like this. Just a sidenote, I'm always very careful when reading "from a user perspective" as an argument in a discussion. I'm still looking for "the user" and the person who knows "the users perspective" and couldn't find those two yet ;) All the

Re: [Qgis-developer] Deprecation of the Vector - OpenStreetMap - Importer

2016-09-21 Thread Anita Graser
Mathieu Pellerin wrote > Unless we have a feature parity with the current openstreetmap tool > (offered through vector -> openstreetmap), please do not drop it. From a user and software quality perspective, I think that we should not ship a severely broken plugin as core plugin while the working

Re: [Qgis-developer] Deprecation of the Vector - OpenStreetMap - Importer

2016-09-20 Thread PieterB
Mathieu Pellerin wrote > Unless we have a feature parity with the current openstreetmap tool > (offered through vector -> openstreetmap), please do not drop it. > > > I agree with Mathieu. Perhaps it is possible to keep the first step of > the download and redirect it to add it as a vector

Re: [Qgis-developer] Deprecation of the Vector - OpenStreetMap - Importer

2016-09-20 Thread Etienne Trimaille
2016-09-20 9:55 GMT+02:00 Mathieu Pellerin : > One useful feature that isn't available through OGR (or QuickOSM last time > I trieD) is the exporting of individual tags as fields (versus only > creating a few fields and an "other_tags" field). > FYI, QuickOSM is not

Re: [Qgis-developer] Deprecation of the Vector - OpenStreetMap - Importer

2016-09-20 Thread Mathieu Pellerin
Unless we have a feature parity with the current openstreetmap tool (offered through vector -> openstreetmap), please do not drop it. One useful feature that isn't available through OGR (or QuickOSM last time I trieD) is the exporting of individual tags as fields (versus only creating a few fields

[Qgis-developer] Deprecation of the Vector - OpenStreetMap - Importer

2016-09-20 Thread Andre Joost
  Dear all, This topic pops up regularly on the mailing lists, but nothing happened lately. The OS import tool is still not able to load features with node numbers exceeding the 32bit-unsigned limit, see http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/64-bit_Identifiers . As a consequence, features get