QGIS User Guide - OSGeo Download Server

Figura 77: Load OSM data dialog
12.14 OpenStreetMap Plugin
Click Ok to load your data. If this is the first time OSM file is loaded, the plugin must first parse the
database. This may take few seconds or minutes - it depends on the amount of loaded data.
12.14.4. Viewing OSM data
After OSM data are loaded, you can identify map features using the appropriate tool. Use the
Identify feature button on the top-left of OSM Feature widget. Using this tool you can easily explore
all map objects. When the mouse cursor is placed over an object, you can see all information on it
directly in the OSM Feature widget. There is also a dynamic rubberband displayed on the map so
that the user is able to determine which feature is currently identified.
The Properties tab of the widget contains of all feature tags. Clicking on the Relation tab shows
you a list of all relations connected with identified feature.
If you want to hold a feature for a while to be able to read its properties and relations, move the mouse
cursor at the same time, try left-clicking while you are over the feature. Identification process will stop
until next left-clicking.
Sometimes there are more than one feature at a point where left-clicking was performed. This happens
especially when clicking on cross-roads or if you didn’t zoom enough into the map. In this
situation only one of such features is identified (and marked with the rubberband) but the plugin remembers
all of them. Then (still in the pause mode) you can change identified features cyclical with
right-clicking.
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