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 layer? > > 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). > > On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 1:17 PM, Andre Joost <
> andre+joost@ > > > wrote: > >> >> 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 lost, or lines >> and polygons don't get imported at all, as soon as recently added nodes >> are >> involved. This makes the importer quite useless. >> >> Following the discussion here at http://osgeo-org.1560.x6. >> nabble.com/Suggestion-Remove-Vector-Openstreetmap-tool- >> from-QGIS-2-12-td5226614.html and on GIS SE http://gis.stackexchange.com/ >> questions/211000/is-there-a-qgis-tool-that-handles-osm-64- >> bit-identifiers-correctly I suggest to drop the 3-part importer from the >> Vector menu. Add vector layer and the QuickOSM plugin can import OSM >> data >> without the 32-bit limitation. >> >> It would be good to drop the item in the upcoming QGIS 2.18. >> >> Alternatively, somebody would have to change the data type for osm_id in >> the spatialite export (part 2 of the 3-part-importer) from integer to >> long >> integer or text. >> >> Greetings, >> Ande Joost >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Qgis-developer mailing list >> > Qgis-developer@.osgeo >> List info: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer >> Unsubscribe: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer >> > > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-developer mailing list > Qgis-developer@.osgeo > List info: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > Unsubscribe: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer -- View this message in context: http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/Deprecation-of-the-Vector-OpenStreetMap-Importer-tp5286805p5286982.html Sent from the Quantum GIS - Developer mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org List info: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer Unsubscribe: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer