So I found out that http://tile.openstreetmap.org/{z}/{x}/{y}.png seems to work.
However, if I add this OSM layer to my Swiss QGIS project (EPSG:21781) - the swiss data seems to appear in the atlantic, west of "Guinea Ecuatorial" ;-( Andreas On 2016-10-04 09:48, Neumann, Andreas wrote: > Hi, > > I have a couple of questions around the new "Tileserver" layer support in > QGIS desktop to be released with 2.18. I think the main commit is > https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/commit/f5b657db19eda7e72e6ed34eb7fe333c156acad0 > - right? > > First, let me thank you a lot for this - Martin and Lutra Consulting for > developing/sponsoring it! > > ----------------- > > However, I wonder if the usability of the newly added tilserver is already > good enough? Or at least I think it is not really obvious how to use it. > > 1. How can add a new connection to a tile server? Is the browser the only > way? If yes, I hope that an additional entry to Layer --> Add Layer menu > could be added - all other layer types can be added this way. > > 2. What is a correct URL? This is really hard to find out. F.e. I went to > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tile_servers and tried to copy some URLs > and failed about finding the correct syntax. I added the layer to the project > --> nothing happened. No display, no error message. Maybe because the > projections do not match? - or would QGIS reproject on the fly? > > 3. Can we add some popular tile map server URLs by default - similar to the > QuickMapServices plugin? > > 4. How can one edit an existing tile server connection - e.b. change title or > URL? Currently, one can only delete and re-add it. > > ----------------- > > Thank you for your reply, > > Andreas > > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-developer mailing list > [email protected] > List info: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > Unsubscribe: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
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