Hi Saber,
I totally agree. It is great to have it in core. We just need to bring
it "on par" with the usability of e.g. the QuickMapServices. Otherwise,
people will just continue to use this plugin instead of the core QGIS
functionality.
BTW: the QuickMapServices plugin also supports transparency, brightness,
contrast, grayscale, blend modes, smoothing, etc.
Thanks and greetings,
Andreas
On 2016-10-04 16:31, Saber Razmjooei wrote:
> Hi Andreas,
>
> From user point of view, there is one other (very obvious) benefit of having
> the native support: styling the XYZ layer. You can now adjust the
> transparency, set blend mode/color rendering, etc similar to other rasters in
> QGIS.
>
> Regards
>
> Saber
>
> FROM: Neumann, Andreas [mailto:[email protected]]
> SENT: 04 October 2016 10:08
> TO: Saber Razmjooei
> CC: 'QGIS Developers List'
> SUBJECT: RE: [Qgis-developer] Questions around xyz tile server connections in
> master 2
>
> oh - SRP was indeed turned off. Silly me!
>
> Still I find that the "standard" methods of adding layers in QGIS should also
> be provided for the tile servers, such as "Layer management toolbar" and Menu
> "Layer --> AddLayer --> Add tile map server layer". I personally normally
> don't use the QGIS browser panel and this means that I can't add tile maps if
> this panel is not open. Or maybe the xyz tile map servers could be integrated
> with the WMS/WMTS layer loading dialogue?
>
> Thanks for your reply!
>
> Andreas
>
> On 2016-10-04 10:52, Saber Razmjooei wrote:
>
> Hi Andreas,
>
> It works fine with my layers and the OTF on.
>
> Including some default services would be great, but unfortunately there are
> some restrictions in using the service.
>
> See the original discussions here:
>
> https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/3473
>
> Cheers
>
> Saber
>
> FROM: Qgis-developer [mailto:[email protected]] ON
> BEHALF OF Neumann, Andreas
> SENT: 04 October 2016 09:33
> TO: QGIS Developers List
> SUBJECT: Re: [Qgis-developer] Questions around xyz tile server connections in
> master 2
>
> So I found out that http://tile.openstreetmap.org/{z}/{x}/{y}.png [1] 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
>
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