QGIS Tile Layers Plugin crashing when adding custom map

Question

I am trying to add a base map to QGIS using the TileLayerPlugin. However, whenever I execute the plugin QGIS crashes. Specifically, I am trying to add this basemap to QGIS.

I created a .tsv file in TextWrangler that reads as follows:

Thunderforest   Thunderforest   http://{s}.tile.thunderforest.com/pioneer/{z}/{x}/{y}.png

I went to Web >> TileLayerPlugin >> Add Tile Layer and then added the directory with the .tsv file. I select the .tsv file (see screenshot) and click Add. When I do that QGIS crashes. I also tried inserting this code into the tsv file with no success

Thunderforest   Thunderforest   https://[abc].tile.thunderforest.com/cycle/{z}/{x}/{y}.png

Answer 1

I could reproduce this... it would think for a bit, then crash QGIS. (Ubuntu, QGIS 2.14.3, plugin version 0.70)

I was able to get this to work by replacing {s} with a, after trying to load some tiles in manually.

This is not ideal, as you want to spread the load over whatever tile servers are available. But it could be that there's a problem with the {s} token . I know that's standard in Leaflet, not sure if this plugin handles it. Would need to look at the code...

So use the following as a workaround (double checking that the spaces are indeed tabs)

Thunderforest[TAB]copyright statement[TAB]http://a.tile.thunderforest.com/pioneer/{z}/{x}/{y}.png

Here's what it looks like :-

You could raise an issue on the plugin's issues page on GitHub to get a more definitive answer.