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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Finbar,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Short answer is no, unless the data source is also providing WFS. You can check this by changing the last part of the URL “…..wms?” to “…..wfs?” and paste add it as a WFS Layer, if
there are any WFS layers available they will then appear in the list of Layers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">In the main, most WMS/WFS Providers will have this locked down anyway, with Rights and completely different WMS, WFS links.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><br>
Richard<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> Qgis-user <qgis-user-bounces@lists.osgeo.org>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>GILLEN Finbar<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 16 October 2018 10:39<br>
<b>To:</b> qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Qgis-user] Convert WMS Layer to Vector<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Hi,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Is it possible to convert a WMS layer to a vector layer in QGIS? If so… how?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Regards<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Finbar<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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