<div dir="auto">In QGIS 3 there is a basemap OSM added by default, available in the xyz node from the browser.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">BTW I agree with not tolerating rude language.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mar 6, 2018 07:53, "Nyall Dawson" <<a href="mailto:nyall.dawson@gmail.com">nyall.dawson@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 6 March 2018 at 16:44, Andreas Neumann <<a href="mailto:a.neumann@carto.net">a.neumann@carto.net</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Hi,<br>
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> Agreed. This is not appropriate language. Thanks for addressing this, Nyall and Tim!<br>
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> However, he is probably not the only user struggling with getting a base map. The larger our user base is, the more likely we will get such issues, esp. from people new to GIS or who only use GIS very occasionally.<br>
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> Maybe we could address this by utilizing our start screen?<br>
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That's what <a href="https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals/issues/102" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-<wbr>Enhancement-Proposals/issues/<wbr>102</a><br>
was designed to address.<br>
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It just (unfortunately) hasn't been implemented yet.<br>
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Nyall<br>
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