On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 5:44 AM, Nyall Dawson <[email protected]> wrote: > On 11 July 2017 at 13:17, John Abraham <[email protected]> wrote: >> Ok, I overlooked a few features, thanks Nathan for pointing out the refresh >> rate! >> >> I rely on web based tile or WMS backgrounds (OpenStreetMap, NRCan Geogratis, >> etc.). CityPhi fills in the background as the tiles show up. QGIS seems to >> need to draw the entire background in it's head, then displays it all at >> once, before it can use the cool multithreaded features on the vectors. Or >> is there another checkbox for "draw my background as it arrives from the >> tile service, but don't wait around for it to respond"? > > How are you adding your web based tile layers? > > Since QGIS 2.18 you can add them as "XYZ" tile sources (see > https://www.qgis.org/en/site/forusers/visualchangelog218/index.html#feature-native-support-of-xyz-tile-layers). > > If you do this they'll be super-smooth, with tiles being rendered > instantly as they download.
Since QGIS 2.18 the instant preview works also with WMTS rasters: https://www.qgis.org/en/site/forusers/visualchangelog218/index.html#feature-preview-of-raster-tiles-wmts-and-xyz-layers Regards Martin _______________________________________________ QGIS-Developer mailing list [email protected] List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
