[Qgis-user] Open Layers Plugin

[Mike Flannigan]

Thank you Richard and Alexandre.
I have installed QuickMapservices plugin.

I think me receiving this e-mail yesterday
was not a coincidence:
http://www.mflan.com/temp/termsofuse.eml


Mike


On 1/2/20 2:43 AM, Richard Duivenvoorde wrote:
> On 02/01/2020 00.59, Mike Flannigan wrote:
>> I am on QGIS 3.10.1 on Linux.  I just noticed that
>> the Open Layers plugin does not install correctly
>> anymore.  I installed Tile+ instead and it serves my
>> needs, but I wanted to know if anybody had anything
>> to say about the Open Layers plugin or the X, Y, Z
>> method of installing basemaps.
> Hi Mike,
>
> I created an issue in it's own issue tracker:
>
> https://github.com/sourcepole/qgis-openlayers-plugin/issues/67
>
> In short: the commercial, non 'free' services like Bing and Google are
> throwing issues:
>
> 2020-01-02T09:16:19     INFO    Plugin installed successfully
> 2020-01-02T09:16:34     WARNING    Python error : An error has occurred
> while executing Python code: See message log (Python Error) for more
> details.
> 2020-01-02T09:16:34     WARNING    OpenLayers Plugin : Printing and
> rotating of Javascript API based layers is currently not supported!
>
> This page can't load Google Maps correctly.
>
> 2020-01-02T09:20:37     WARNING    Python error : An error has occurred
> while executing Python code: See message log (Python Error) for more
> details.
> 2020-01-02T09:20:37     WARNING    OpenLayers Plugin : Printing and
> rotating of Javascript API based layers is currently not supported!
> 2020-01-02T09:20:37     CRITICAL    Qt :
> QNetworkReplyImplPrivate::error: Internal problem, this method must only
> be called once.
>
>
> The use of these services is most of the times license-wise-seen a
> little dodgy anyway. Better use OpenStreetMap or other reference data.
> If you really like/need Google or Bing (which you according to their
> licences probably are not allowed to use their tiles out of their own
> api's...) you can use the alternatives Alexander notes.
> In QuickMapservcies, load the non-free services via menu
> Web/QuickmapServices/Settings tab 'More Services'.
>
> Some url's to use for xyz layers, if you want dodgy:
>
> ArcGis:
> http://server.arcgisonline.com/ArcGIS/rest/services/World_Topo_Map/MapServer/tile/{z}/{y}/{x}.png
>
> Google Map:   https://mt1.google.com/vt/lyrs=m&x={x}&y={y}&z={z}
>
> Google Satellite:   https://mt1.google.com/vt/lyrs=s&x={x}&y={y}&z={z}
>
> OSM is there for free :-)
>
> Regards,
>
> Richard Duivenvoorde