[Qgis-developer] OpenLayers Plugin - feature request

[Bernd Vogelgesang]

Hi Arne,
adding Stamen terrain background will not take months but a few minutes.

You can either use the Add\Edit\Remove tab under settings, or just copy a  
Stamen folder in qgis2/QuickMapServices/Contribute/data_sources and put it  
into /.qgis2/QuickMapServices/User/data_sources and then adjust the naming  
of the folder and of the settings in the metadata.ini

which looks like this then:

[general]
id = stamen_terrain_background
type = TMS

[ui]
group = stamen
alias = Stamen Terrain Background
icon = stamen.png

[license]
name = CC-BY 3.0
link = http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
copyright_text = Map tiles by Stamen Design, under CC BY 3.0. Data by  
OpenStreetMap, under ODbL
copyright_link = http://maps.stamen.com/
terms_of_use = http://maps.stamen.com/
[tms]
url = http://tile.stamen.com/terrain-background/{z}/{x}/{y}.png
zmin = 0
zmax = 19
y_origin_top = 1

This works quite well, but the service itself is somehow buggy. Lots of  
tiles are missing in deeper zoom levels, both in the browser-based version  
and in QGIS, so the problem is not from QuickMapServices but from the  
service itself.

Hope this helps
Bernd




Am 13.08.2016, 12:11 Uhr, schrieb Arne Wichmann <aw at saar.de>:

> begin  quotation  from Bernd Vogelgesang (in  
> <op.yltvgnk0l2i25i at vogelbe-esprimo-p2560>):
>> have a look at the QuickMapServices-plugin.
>> There are already some Stamen backgrounds available.
>> Maybe the one you look for is there too. Have also a look at  
>> Settings/More
>> services/Get contributed pack
>>
>> As far as I know, OpenLayers will be replaced by QuickMapServices
>
> Thanks, it helped a bit - it still does not have Stamen  
> terrain-background
> or something comparable, but it has two other maps I might use  
> eventually.
>
> I might try to add Stamen terrain-background when I get around to it -=  
> but
> I expect this will take some months.
>
> cu
>
> AW


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