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

[Nyall Dawson]

On 4 Oct 2016 7:08 PM, "Neumann, Andreas" <a.neumann at carto.net> wrote:
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> oh - SRP was indeed turned off. Silly me!
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> 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?

Hmm.. I'm actually of the other opinion and was wondering whether this way
of adding providers could help cut down on the toolbar bloat that QGIS
suffers from. I'll admit it's not immediately discoverable for users, but
maybe there's some way we could fix that...

Nyall

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> Thanks for your reply!
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> Andreas
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> On 2016-10-04 10:52, Saber Razmjooei wrote:
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>> Hi Andreas,
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>> It works fine with my layers and the OTF on.
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>> Including some default services would be great, but unfortunately there
are some restrictions in using the service.
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>> See the original discussions here:
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>> https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/3473
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>> Cheers
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>> Saber
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>> 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
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>> So I found out that http://tile.openstreetmap.org/{z}/{x}/{y}.png seems
to work.
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>> 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"
;-(
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>> Andreas
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>> On 2016-10-04 09:48, Neumann, Andreas wrote:
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>>> 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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