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

[Richard Duivenvoorde]

On 10/24/23 14:38, Greg Troxel via QGIS-User wrote:
>    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. 

This is provided by Protomaps itself, so people could do that if they want.

And: no planning yet, I was just wondering wat other felt/thought.

I've been playing with it, and at this moment it lacks (in QGIS) proper style handling, I think.

>    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.

Agreed, but I do not have a solution for that either. Not sure if QGIS should enforce this or it is actually the responsibility of the producer of a map.

Regards,

Richard