[Qgis-user] my QGIS 2.18 won't load usgs geojson feed not a valid source....

[Randal Hale]

I would leave (or change) the encoding to UTF-8. It opened for me with 
that setting.

Randy


On 12/08/2016 01:57 PM, Chris House wrote:
> I am on ubuntu 16.04 and I am unable to do something i've done in 
> windows.  I am trying to pull the geoson earth quake feed from usgs.
>
> The link to the feeds is here...
>
> http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/feed/v1.0/geojson.php
>
> ...the actual feed I used is this one (there are several on the above 
> link)
>
> http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/feed/v1.0/summary/all_month.geojson
>
> I am told by my QGIS installation of 2.18 on Ubuntu 16.04 that it is 
> not a valid source.  Anyone else have this problem and/or can get it 
> to work?
>
> 1) add vector
> 2) change source type to protocol
> 3) encoding is set to win 1532
> 4) protocal type geojson
> 5)geoson feed url
>
> Invalid Data Source: 
> http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/feed/v1.0/summary/all_month.geojson 
> is not a valid or recognized data source
>
>
>
> Thanks for your help!!
>
> --Chris
>
>
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