Download, Style and Label Cities and Towns from OpenStreetMap

Download, Style and Label Cities and Towns from OpenStreetMap

Add Vector Data from OpenStreetMap to QGIS with the QuickOSM Plugin

You can easily import #OpenStreetMap elements into #QGIS with the #QuickOSM Plugin. Building the Overpass turbo query is now straightforward with the interactive dialogue.
https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/QuickOSM/
What rabbit hole did I get myself into?
In order to speed up my #QGIS experiments with #QuickOSM, I wanted to run Overpass API locally, and make use of the existing #OpenStreetMap .osm.pbf planet dump I have (downloading would take ages).
But the API server tooling does not understand osm.pbf format, so I'm slowly converting it to osm.gz so that the server can convert it into its own format, and I'm considering adding support for reading osm.pbf..
THAT'S NOT WHAT I WANTED TO DO TO BEGIN WITH!
QGIS + QuickOSM is a nice way to build maps with OpenStreetMap data, but damn, the QuickOSM plugin is stubborn...
If you try to save a preset and then load it, and it happens to contain any keys that are not present in the "blessed" josm_preset.xml (like let's say "water"), they are silently cleared and as consequence you can't generate an Overseer query and it all just breaks apart.
The quick fix was to add desired keys to josm_preset.xml copying from existing.
📺 Aujourd'hui la #GeoITW de @etrimaille de chez #3Liz, auteur de #QuickOSM et contributeur au cœur de #QGIS :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Vo6LiySDVA&list=PLm8_Gh1bXPzqCCBDVhibk-uDKwFZTWl9G&index=3