[Qgis-developer] new plugin "Load TMS Layer"

[Mathieu Pellerin]

Nice, few comments (based on my previous uses of the GDAL TMS mini-driver):
- your plugin should make sure the loaded layer is assigned the proper
projection (mostly pseudo-mercator); failing to do so will leave must users
unable to understand why the TMS rendering fails
- that would also switch OTF reprojection on when needed
- consider adding TMS of the Global Forest Change (see
http://www.earthenginepartners.appspot.com/science-2013-global-forest for
data source, and
https://www.flickr.com/photos/60284107@N00/11096344994/in/pool-qgis-screenshotsfor
in-QGIS example)

The GDAL TMS driver is in many ways a superior solution to OpenLayers; it
works perfectly fine with the multi-thread rendering, can be exported via
qgis composer, caches the tiles, etc.

Math



On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 4:45 AM, Etienne Tourigny <etourigny.dev at gmail.com>wrote:

> I have put together a simple plugin to load a number of TMS layers using
> the GDAL TMS mini-driver [1]. I see it as a simple alternative to the more
> complete OpenLayers plugin.
>
> Code is at github for now [2]. Any suggestions are welcome (including
> plugin name). Also if you have any other working examples please let me
> know.
>
> Supported layers are OSM, Google, and other examples given in [1] (except
> those that don't work).
>
> Tested with QGIS 2.2 and master. Rendering of labels is not the best but
> it seems better with master.
>
> [1] http://www.gdal.org/frmt_wms.html
> [2] https://github.com/etiennesky/loadtmslayer
>
>
> cheers
> Etienne
>
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