[Qgis-psc] )Base map data sources - (Was: Formal policy on closing tickets with rude/aggresive language?

[Jonathan Moules]

Hi Andreas,

 > ... Or a link to web resources where one could get global GIS data, 
such as Natural Earth data or 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_GIS_data_sources - not sure if 
there are any good websites that are both quite complete and regularly 
updated. Ideally, it would be a resource or website that we don't need 
to maintain ;-)

Heading slightly off-topic here, but have you tried GeoSeer - 
https://www.geoseer.net ? - It's a spatial search engine for OGC 
web-services, from local to global. For basemaps I'd probably suggest 
including "wmts" in the search - there are slightly over 10,000 WMTS 
layers indexed there - and a third of a million WMS layers.

Cheers,
Jonathan

On 06/03/2018 06:44, Andreas Neumann wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Agreed. This is not appropriate language. Thanks for addressing this, 
> Nyall and Tim!
>
> However, he is probably not the only user struggling with getting a 
> base map. The larger our user base is, the more likely we will get 
> such issues, esp. from people new to GIS or who only use GIS very 
> occasionally.
>
> Maybe we could address this by utilizing our start screen?
>
> E.g. have a small sample project with base maps available from the 
> start screen? Or a link to web resources where one could get global 
> GIS data, such as Natural Earth data or 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_GIS_data_sources - not sure if 
> there are any good websites that are both quite complete and regularly 
> updated. Ideally, it would be a resource or website that we don't need 
> to maintain ;-)
>
> Greetings,
>
> Andreas
>
> On 2018-03-06 07:23, Tim Sutton wrote:
>
>> Hi
>> 100% good with your reply. Rudeness aside, I wonder if there is an 
>> issue with downloading and using the sample data? Its been ages since 
>> I actually checked the sample data download options in the windows 
>> installer....
>> Thanks Nyall
>> Regards
>> Tim
>>
>>> On 06 Mar 2018, at 01:33, Nyall Dawson <nyall.dawson at gmail.com 
>>> <mailto:nyall.dawson at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>> Hi PSC,
>>>
>>> This report was recently filed on the bug tracker:
>>> https://issues.qgis.org/issues/18340
>>>
>>> I closed it, because I don't believe that ANYONE who uses aggressive
>>> language like this within the community deserves us to donate our time
>>> to assist them (also... because the bug is just missing 3rd party
>>> plugins in 3.0. But that's beside the point).
>>>
>>> I'm wondering if we could formally adopt a policy on hub of "no rude,
>>> abusive or aggresive language will be tolerated and tickets exhibiting
>>> these will be immediately closed regardless of their validity"? I
>>> can't see ANY reason why we should have to accept this type of
>>> behavior within the community.
>>>
>>> (It's possible there's already a policy somewhere covering this -- in
>>> which case please disregard this request!)
>>>
>>> Nyall
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>> ---
>> *Tim Sutton*
>> QGIS Project Steering Committee Chair
>> tim at qgis.org <mailto:tim at qgis.org>
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