[Qgis-user] WMS "Add Default Servers"

[Jonathan Moules]

Hi Paulo,

The problem with default links is:

* They go out of date quickly

* They're probably not what the user wants.

* There are a lot of them: I have over 180,000 services in my database

* There are too many even just global - of the 1.2 million layers in my 
database, 68,922 claim via their bbox to have fully global coverage.

* A list of titles doesn't really tell you what's in the service.

Shameless plug: This is why I developed GeoSeer - https:www.geoseer.net 
- to make these services discoverable.


As requested I've create a ticket for its removal: 
https://issues.qgis.org/issues/22059

Cheers,

Jonathan


On 2019-05-13 06:52, Paolo Cavallini wrote:
> Good point Jonathan. Do you have any useful server, possibly of global
> coverage, to suggest? Could you please open a ticket about this?
> Thanks.
>
> On 13/05/19 01:36, Jonathan Moules wrote:
>> Hi list,
>>
>> Question - What is the purpose of the "Add Default Servers" for WMS? I
>> ask because the servers are all demo servers and have no meaningful data
>> - they're good for development purposes but useless to the end users.
>>
>> Also (ironically) - the QGIS Demo Server doesn't work I get "Service
>> Unavailable".
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Jonathan
>>
>>
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