[Qgis-user] WMS "Add Default Servers"

[Paolo Cavallini]

Agreed, thanks.
Perhaps a QGIS plugin to search Geoseer db directly would be useful?
Cheers.

On 13/05/19 09:22, Jonathan Moules wrote:
> 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 * They go out of date quickly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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