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Will the OpenLayers Plugin be updated for QGIS3?
In QGIS 3 use the XYZ Tiles in Data Browser
use
http://mt0.google.com/vt/lyrs=y&hl=en&x={x}&y={y}&z={z}&s=Ga
12th March 2018 update
There is a python script that will load in ...
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Will the OpenLayers Plugin be updated for QGIS3?
Qgis 3 has a new plugin architecture so plugins are not immediately compatible with this new version. From the source repository it seems they wait for the official release of QGIS 3 to produce a new ...
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OpenLayers low resolution and/or shifts in QGIS print composer?
It is a common bug, and there are many threads that deal with this.
A solution is to make your map element/object fit the map composer.
bug
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QGIS 3.2.2 OpenLayers plugin isn't listed to install
The OpenLayers Plugin is deprecated.
It is recommended to use QuickMapServices or QGIS core functionality instead of OpenLayers Plugin because the latter has many issues. One very famous issue is the ...
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Why are the Google basemaps no longer appearing in QGIS?
Do not use the OpenLayers Plugin, it sucks. Use QuickMapServices instead. (see my comment below on why I think it sucks)
Or you can add the google tileserver directly as a raster layer.
Open up an ...
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OpenLayers low resolution and/or shifts in QGIS print composer?
For future readers who are viewing this post, this bug still exists at 2.12. Here's a visual example of the bug, screenshot from a pdf that I created using the Print Composer. All layers, as well as ...
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Will the OpenLayers Plugin be updated for QGIS3?
The QuickMapServices (or QMS) Plugin makes it very easy to add basemaps from many different sources to your QGIS 3 project.
By default you get quite a few basemaps, but you can add hundreds of ...
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Plugins: Openlayers and OSM-Download QGIS 3
All plugins from earlier versions must be updated to be compatible with QGIS 3.0. If your favorite plugins are missing, be patient and wait for the plugin developers to update them. 3.0 hasn't been ...
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how to load the QGIS openlayers_plugin in standalone python script (not the QGIS embedded python console)
Being very keen on the TDD paradigm, I've spent some time putting together a dummy-interface (based on some code fragments I found on the internet) which enables calling QGIS and QGIS-plugins ...
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Adding map from website maps-for-free.com as basemap on QGIS?
This can be done using the Quick Map Services plugin, which I'm finding better than the OpenLayers plugin for base maps - it has more base maps and loads tiles directly rather than using Javascript to ...
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Obtaining base maps / base layers in QGIS 3.0
I figured out how to add base maps from Google without the QuickMapServices plugin. The link I was trying to use as a WMS connection is actually for XYZ tiles. QGIS 3.0 has a great new feature, the ...
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Adding styled OpenLayers Google map in QGIS
Drop OpenLayers plugin)
Install QuickMapServices plugin for QGIS
Go to plugin's options and get contributors pack of basemaps. These include some Google ones. Go to ~/.qgis2/QuickMapServices/...
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How to identify features in an OpenStreetMap layer in QGIS 2.16?
When you activate experimental extensions in the extension options you can try the OSMInfo plugin. It may have the functions you are looking for.
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How to convert x y coordinates to OSM using QGIS?
There is NO way to export data to .osm format in QGIS.
The menu point you used is just to download OSM raw data, and export it to a spatialite database.
Alternatively, you can save to GPX format (...
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Python error with OpenLayers plugin QGIS 2
FIY, the QGIS dev are thinking about deprecating the OpenLayers plugin in favor of QuickMapServices (already available in the extensions)
Why? It's mainly an outdated plugin you should avoid. It was ...
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Can the new Mapbox Vector Tiles be used as a QGIS basemap?
Seems this is still not fully functional, at least in the sense that this new effort to support vector tiles in QGIS is now underway:
https://www.lutraconsulting.co.uk/crowdfunding/vectortile-qgis/
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QGIS Essen ruler problems with EPSG:3857
This most probably is a projection settings issue. The setting of your project is automatically changed to EPSG:3857 (because you would otherwise have distorted satellite images or other tiled layers) ...
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Where to get OpenLayers plugin compatible with QGIS 2.14?
The standard way to install any plugin compatible with the version of QGIS you are using is to use the Manage and Install Plugins option from the QGIS Plugin menu.
Search for the Plugin you want and ...
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Will the OpenLayers Plugin be updated for QGIS3?
I've made a generic script to load from CSV any XYZ tiles
It's more generic than the one by Klas Karlsson (not hardcoded content) but you will need to set additional layers on your own as the ...
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Why does the OpenLayers plugin override the predefined projection?
OpenLayers is a plugin and therefore not an integral part of QGIS.
A plugin can modify various parameters of QGIS like the projection. OpenLayers obviously makes use of this possibility.
This is not ...
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Why does the OpenLayers plugin override the predefined projection?
The OpenLayers plugin overrides your projection preference and set it to EPSG:3857. See Can I use Openlayers Plugin with a different Datum/Projection? : it's due to the tiles providers (Google, Bing, ...
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How to load my CSV file with WKT to QGIS
You should use QuickMapServices plugin instead of OpenLayers Plugin.
If you want to use coordinates to display point
To make things work, I just used the Layer > AddLayer > Add Delimited TextLayer
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Resolving Java script Alert that This page was unable to display Google Maps element?
I got a key from google and included in each of the GOOGLE html files in the
openlayers plugin html directory... and it started working again.
add your key to the line
https://maps.googleapis.com/...
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OSM data appear in very low quality in QGIS
The Openstreetmap background looks best if you hit exactly the scales in which the tiles are rendered.
You might look into the TileMapScaleLevels plugin to get those scales by default.
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Vector and OpenLayers rendering problem
Problems with OpenLayers in the print composer have been well documented for years now (for example, see Why do OpenLayers plugin layers appear shifted in QGIS print composer?). Use QuickMapServices ...
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qgis2web, popups with information are displaying for the bottom layer (not the top layer)
After debugging for a number of hours (being out of practice and all), I found a simple solution:
The issue is that map.forEachFeatureAtPixel loop reads features in the following order: top-most to ...
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Adding map from maps-for-free to QGIS?
You can add it as XYZ tiles very easily.
1. right click XYZ Tiles
2. New Connection
3. connaction url is https://maps-for-free.com/layer/relief/z{z}/row{y}/{z}_{x}-{y}.jpg
4. click OK.
You can then ...
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How to manage the CRS of OpenLayers plugin in QGIS?
You should create new custom CRS and assign it to your layer(s). This quick and dirty approach worked for me after reading all the posts arround here. I use QGIS 2.8.1 and metric system, as I live in ...
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Problem with distance in QGIS
I am no expert in this but from my understanding:
The OpenLayers plugin in QGIS uses the EPSG:3857 CRS which is a projected CRS on a flat surface (here's a very good post describing it). Therefore, ...
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Bing Aerial metadata in QGIS
Unfortunately using Bing via the OpenLayersPlugin does not supply any meaningful metadata such as acquisition dates.
May I refer you to the following thread:
https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/...
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