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

[Chris House]

Unfortunately, its not a vm.  I am in a area with no networking so I'm
tethered on my phone.  All other internet (thunderbird email, firefox,
pidgin etc..) works great.  However, I wouldn't be surprised if this is
networking then....

On Dec 8, 2016 2:25 PM, "Randal Hale" <rjhale at northrivergeographic.com>
wrote:

> Let me see if I can break it on my end. It's opening for me ....and I just
> opened it with a random win protocol I just picked.
>
> Lemme do some digging - I'm not entirely sure why yours isn't opening. I'm
> running xubuntu 16.04 and qgis 2.18.1 and it works.
>
> Are you in a Virtual Machine or installed on a computer? This is going to
> sound stupid but is your networking up? Can you ping something on the
> outside world. I just turned networking off and got the same error. I'm
> hoping you're about to save you're in a VM and maybe the networking is
> being weird.
>
> Randy
> On 12/08/2016 02:11 PM, Chris House wrote:
>
> Initially I left it as utf-8 but when that didn't work thought maybe there
> was a reason to switch to the win encoding....so utf-8 not working either.
>
> On Dec 8, 2016 2:06 PM, "Randal Hale" <rjhale at northrivergeographic.com>
> wrote:
>
>> 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/ear
>> thquakes/feed/v1.0/summary/all_month.geojson is not a valid or
>> recognized data source
>>
>>
>> Thanks for your help!!
>>
>> --Chris
>>
>>
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