[Qgis-user] International/Local Labeled World Basemap in QGIS. Protomaps?

[Greg Troxel]

Richard Duivenvoorde via QGIS-User <qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org> writes:

> Looking at Protomaps [0], and see that it's tools are OpenSource, data
> from OSM data, and you should be able to host a 110Gb file via CDN as
> basemap.

Two more thoughts:

  I, and I suspect many others, often want basemaps for a much more
  limited area.  For 95% of what I do, a basemap that only covers
  Massachusetts, US, is just fine.  It would be great if I could take a
  regional extract and produce by own file that is only 200 or so MB.  I
  realize that's more of a comment about protomaps, and likely
  supported, unless there's some doctrine against it, but I wanted to
  inject the thought into qgis planning.   I think this is mostly just
  "be able to point to file or URL of your choice" and everything else
  is bug fixes.

  I am unclear on how we are dealing with the required OSM attribution
  in qgis.  I have added OSM tiles with quickosm, and the main map view
  lacks attribution.  I did publish a pdf map of local conservation, and
  I was careful in the map composer to attribute OSM (required) and
  MassGIS (polite).  I suspect at least some are not so careful.
  Leaflet has a default or at least more in-the-groove attribution path,
  and I think adding OSM to qgis should too.   This is not specifically
  about this vs TMS, but if starting from scratch I think we should
  significantly try.