[Qgis-user] Google with OTF - as XML

[Andreas Neumann]

Hi Lene,

Yes - the Google images are quite up-to-date in my region as well. 
Definitely a big plus.

Andreas

On 20.12.2015 11:48, Lene Fischer wrote:
>
> Hi Andreas, Nyall and Paolo,
>
> I´m well aware of all these incidents. I just had a urgent need for 
> getting the newest Ortophoto for a specific area. And Google did have 
> one from summer 2015. My drone recording went wrong and I had a 
> deadline. So Google saved my day. The print scale was 1:2000 and was OK.
>
> My drone ortho is normally much better J - 2 cm pixel gives a 
> brilliant map.
>
> But still the OpenLayer Plugin give me a lot of trouble…. CRS and OTF 
> crash.
>
> Regards
>
> Lene
>
> *Fra:*Qgis-user [mailto:qgis-user-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] *På vegne 
> af *Andreas Neumann
> *Sendt:* 20. december 2015 09:19
> *Til:* qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org
> *Emne:* Re: [Qgis-user] Google with OTF - as XML
>
> Hi,
>
> From a technical point of view it seems to work. But as Nyall said, 
> you are not allowed to use Google tiles directly and print out your 
> own layers on top of it. For that reason we can't add any Google 
> layers to QGIS - officially.
>
> I tried it out - for aerial images the reprojection works fine (if one 
> also uses bilinear/cubic/average interpolation) - but the maps with 
> lineart and labels look really, really ugly after they had been 
> reprojected.
>
> If you print out at high resolution - again the aerial images look 
> fine, but the higher you increase the resolution, the thinner the road 
> symbology gets and the roads get labeled way too often - so not very 
> pretty from a (carto)-graphical point of view. I was impressed though 
> that you can also print at very large sizes (I tested an A0 map wirh 
> my layers and Google images in the backdrop - it took very long to 
> render, but it worked). If you use this too often, there is also the 
> risk that Google blocks your IP address.
>
> The Swiss OSM association offers tiles in the native Swiss projection. 
> This allows to print much nicer maps than with Google maps. See 
> http://sosm.ch/swiss-lv95-projected-tiles/ and you can use the 
> attached xml file to open as a raster image. I think it would be a 
> good idea if other national OSM associations would offer their data in 
> the native national coordinate system. Something to discuss with your 
> local OSM gurus ...
>
> The nice thing about this tile-map GDAL provider is that you can 
> manipulate the raster on the fly (e.g. convert it to black and white, 
> make it darker or lighter, change contrast or colors globally, etc.)
>
> Andreas
>
> On 20.12.2015 00:34, Lene Fischer wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>
>     Just got a small Christmas present from my husband. 6 XML files  :-)
>
>     Containing Google and Streetview. And then you might say 'Yeah we already got that in OpenLayer Plugin' - Correct. But when I use OpenLayer, the vector layers always fly around and calculations mess up.
>
>     So now I got the XML files.
>
>     Renamed to Zip and Unzipped the files. Open as Raster.
>
>     They are now changed in the 'On The Fly' - in any CRS I want.
>
>     Now I´m looking forward to my real Christmas Present - Hope Bo read this mail so he don´t forget  ;-)
>
>     Regards
>
>     Lene Fischer
>
>        
>
>
>
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