[Qgis-developer] Questions around xyz tile server connections in master 2

[Neumann, Andreas]

oh - SRP was indeed turned off. Silly me! 

Still I find that the "standard" methods of adding layers in QGIS should
also be provided for the tile servers, such as "Layer management
toolbar" and Menu "Layer --> AddLayer --> Add tile map server layer". I
personally normally don't use the QGIS browser panel and this means that
I can't add tile maps if this panel is not open. Or maybe the xyz tile
map servers could be integrated with the WMS/WMTS layer loading
dialogue? 

Thanks for your reply! 

Andreas 

On 2016-10-04 10:52, Saber Razmjooei wrote:

> Hi Andreas, 
> 
> It works fine with my layers and the OTF on. 
> 
> Including some default services would be great, but unfortunately there are some restrictions in using the service. 
> 
> See the original discussions here: 
> 
> https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/3473 
> 
> Cheers 
> 
> Saber 
> 
> FROM: Qgis-developer [mailto:qgis-developer-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] ON BEHALF OF Neumann, Andreas
> SENT: 04 October 2016 09:33
> TO: QGIS Developers List
> SUBJECT: Re: [Qgis-developer] Questions around xyz tile server connections in master 2 
> 
> So I found out that http://tile.openstreetmap.org/{z}/{x}/{y}.png [1] seems to work. 
> 
> However, if I add this OSM layer to my Swiss QGIS project (EPSG:21781) - the swiss data seems to appear in the atlantic, west of "Guinea Ecuatorial" ;-( 
> 
> Andreas 
> 
> On 2016-10-04 09:48, Neumann, Andreas wrote:
> 
>> Hi, 
>> 
>> I have a couple of questions around the new "Tileserver" layer support in QGIS desktop to be released with 2.18. I think the main commit is https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/commit/f5b657db19eda7e72e6ed34eb7fe333c156acad0 - right? 
>> 
>> First, let me thank you a lot for this -  Martin and Lutra Consulting for developing/sponsoring it! 
>> 
>> ----------------- 
>> 
>> However, I wonder if the usability of the newly added tilserver is already good enough? Or at least I think it is not really obvious how to use it. 
>> 
>> 1. How can add a new connection to a tile server? Is the browser the only way? If yes, I hope that an additional entry to Layer --> Add Layer menu could be added - all other layer types can be added this way. 
>> 
>> 2. What is a correct URL? This is really hard to find out. F.e. I went to http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tile_servers and tried to copy some URLs and failed about finding the correct syntax. I added the layer to the project --> nothing happened. No display, no error message. Maybe because the projections do not match? - or would QGIS reproject on the fly? 
>> 
>> 3. Can we add some popular tile map server URLs by default - similar to the QuickMapServices plugin? 
>> 
>> 4. How can one edit an existing tile server connection - e.b. change title or URL? Currently, one can only delete and re-add it. 
>> 
>> ----------------- 
>> 
>> Thank you for your reply, 
>> 
>> Andreas
>> 
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[1] http://tile.openstreetmap.org/%7bz%7d/%7bx%7d/%7by%7d.png
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