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 person who knows "the us

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 best

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 Q

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 laye

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 creating the "other_tags". The

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