Re: [Qgis-developer] The future of OpenStreetMap plugin

2013-02-24 Thread Andre Joost
Am 01.02.2013 01:26, schrieb Martin Dobias: What are your thoughts and wishes on QGIS - OpenStreetMap integration? Just another point: Openstreetmap just recently crossed the border of 2^31 Nodes, which spoils the use of the current plugin. See:

Re: [Qgis-developer] The future of OpenStreetMap plugin

2013-02-24 Thread Martin Dobias
On Feb 24, 2013 9:36 PM, Andre Joost andre+jo...@nurfuerspam.de wrote: Am 01.02.2013 01:26, schrieb Martin Dobias: What are your thoughts and wishes on QGIS - OpenStreetMap integration? Just another point: Openstreetmap just recently crossed the border of 2^31 Nodes, which spoils the use

Re: [Qgis-developer] The future of OpenStreetMap plugin

2013-02-03 Thread Tim Sutton
Hi Martin I also support your ideas. From my experience the biggest frustration when working with OSM plugin is the unpredictability of whether you will be able to fetch al the data in your current extent before hitting the OSM API download ceiling. Have you looked at using the overpass api

Re: [Qgis-developer] The future of OpenStreetMap plugin

2013-02-03 Thread Martin Dobias
On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 2:54 PM, Tim Sutton li...@linfiniti.com wrote: Hi Martin I also support your ideas. From my experience the biggest frustration when working with OSM plugin is the unpredictability of whether you will be able to fetch al the data in your current extent before hitting

Re: [Qgis-developer] The future of OpenStreetMap plugin

2013-02-02 Thread Martin Dobias
On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 1:02 AM, Even Rouault even.roua...@mines-paris.org wrote: Le vendredi 01 février 2013 22:42:36, Martin Dobias a écrit : Right, the low level concepts of OSM model are not exposed through the OGR API, because it doesn't have support for topology. However you could

Re: [Qgis-developer] The future of OpenStreetMap plugin

2013-02-02 Thread Even Rouault
Le samedi 02 février 2013 17:04:52, Martin Dobias a écrit : On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 1:02 AM, Even Rouault even.roua...@mines-paris.org wrote: Le vendredi 01 février 2013 22:42:36, Martin Dobias a écrit : Right, the low level concepts of OSM model are not exposed through the OGR API,

Re: [Qgis-developer] The future of OpenStreetMap plugin

2013-02-01 Thread jr . morreale
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

Re: [Qgis-developer] The future of OpenStreetMap plugin

2013-02-01 Thread Martin Dobias
On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 9:11 AM, jr.morre...@enoreth.net 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

Re: [Qgis-developer] The future of OpenStreetMap plugin

2013-02-01 Thread Even Rouault
Le vendredi 01 février 2013 22:42:36, Martin Dobias a écrit : On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 9:11 AM, jr.morre...@enoreth.net 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

Re: [Qgis-developer] The future of OpenStreetMap plugin

2013-01-31 Thread Paolo Cavallini
Il 01/02/2013 01:26, Martin Dobias ha scritto: I have a working proof of concept (1K lines of code) and it looks good - it's fairly simple and fast. For example, import of Essex county data (2135K nodes, 203K ways, XML size 420MB), including creation of SpatiaLite layers took less than 3

Re: [Qgis-developer] The future of OpenStreetMap plugin

2013-01-31 Thread René-Luc D'Hont
Hi Martin, I think the OSM plugin has to be improved, and it's a good news if you have started a new architecture. Can the plugin be extracted from the core? For the edit purpose, I think it's an important feature because gis user don't want to use an other software than the one they use for