Overview

This geo services plugin allows applications to access Open Street Map location based services using the Qt Location API.

Data, imagery and map information provided by MapQuest, ThunderForest, OpenStreetMap and contributors. The data is available under the Open Database License.

The Open Street Map geo services plugin can be loaded by using the plugin key "osm".

Parameters

Optional parameters

The following table lists optional parameters that can be passed to the Open Street Map plugin.

Note: Since Qt 5.5 all parameters below must be prefixed with osm. Previous versions did not require a prefix.

Parameter Usage Example

The following example shows how to create an OSM plugin instance with parameters supplied for an useragent, and if necessary, a custom server url plus the corresponding copyright information for the tile provider. Additionally, it is possible to choose another routing server than the public osrm one.

QML

Plugin {
    name: "osm"
    PluginParameter { name: "osm.useragent"; value: "My great Qt OSM application" }
    PluginParameter { name: "osm.mapping.host"; value: "http://osm.tile.server.address/" }
    PluginParameter { name: "osm.mapping.copyright"; value: "All mine" }
    PluginParameter { name: "osm.routing.host"; value: "http://osrm.server.address/viaroute" }
    PluginParameter { name: "osm.geocoding.host"; value: "http://geocoding.server.address" }
}