Currently, all features are available in both XML and QL variants, but the most recent additions have only been announced and documented for the QL language. I don't think that the XML language will be dumped anytime soon. Maybe Roland can tell us more about his long-term plans about deprecating the XML language.
Martin On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 9:49 AM, Etienne Trimaille <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Ok, so you recommend to use QL instead of XML. Is there some feature that > are in QL and not in XML ? > The XML will be maintained for how long ? > and quickosm should switch from XML to QL in the short term ? > > 2014-10-23 16:29 GMT+02:00 Martin Raifer <[email protected]>: >> >> Hi Dave, >> >> Yes. There was an update [0] today in which I've changed the wizard to >> produce Overpass QL queries instead of the old XML-styled Overpass >> language. This is maily because we wanted to be more consistent in >> which query language should be the "recommended" one (see this ticket >> on github [1]). There is more and more documentation and help material >> available for the QL language, and advanced users seemed to have >> always preferred it anyways. I know that the XML syntax was more >> verbose, thus more easy to understand for beginners, but in long-term >> it simply doesn't make sense to maintain two languages in parallel. >> >> > Also, Where are the saved queries stored? It's failing to load a couple >> > of mine & I'd like to manually retrieve them if possible. >> >> This sounds like a bug. I've opened a ticket for that on github: [2]. >> Can you please try to open the developer tools in your browser (see >> http://debugbrowser.com/ for instructions) and look if there any error >> messages? If you have an account, please post anything to the github >> ticket, otherwise please contact me directly. >> >> The saved queries are stored in your browser's "local Storage" which >> you can usually also access via your browser's developer tools (look >> out for a "Resources" tab). >> >> Bye, >> Martin >> >> [0] https://github.com/tyrasd/overpass-ide/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md >> [1] https://github.com/tyrasd/overpass-ide/issues/101 >> [2] https://github.com/tyrasd/overpass-ide/issues/106 >> >> On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 3:36 PM, Dave F. <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Hi >> > >> > Has the wizard in Overpass Turbo been updated in the past couple of >> > days, or >> > have I somehow amend its way of working? Looked in the wiki but could >> > see no >> > mention. >> > >> > Wizard query of landuse=recreation_ground produces a much less verbose >> > query >> > (No 'query' or 'k=' etc) >> > >> > /* >> > This has been generated by the overpass-turbo wizard. >> > The original search was: >> > “landuse=recreation_ground” >> > */ >> > [out:json][timeout:25]; >> > // gather results >> > ( >> > // query part for: “landuse=recreation_ground” >> > node["landuse"="recreation_ground"]({{bbox}}); >> > way["landuse"="recreation_ground"]({{bbox}}); >> > relation["landuse"="recreation_ground"]({{bbox}}); >> > ); >> > // print results >> > out body; >> >>; >> > out skel qt; >> > >> > Also, Where are the saved queries stored? It's failing to load a couple >> > of >> > mine & I'd like to manually retrieve them if possible. >> > >> > Cheers >> > Dave F. >> > >> > >> > --- >> > This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus >> > protection is active. >> > http://www.avast.com >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > talk mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >> >> _______________________________________________ >> talk mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
