QSettings().setValue('qgis/%s/%s/zmax' % (connectionType, connectionName), source) QSettings().setValue('qgis/%s/%s/username' % (connectionType, connectionName), source) QSettings().setValue('qgis/%s/%s/url' % (connectionType, connectionName), source) QSettings().setValue('qgis/%s/%s/referer' % (connectionType, connectionName), source) QSettings().setValue('qgis/%s/%s/password' % (connectionType, connectionName), source) QSettings().setValue('qgis/%s/%s/authcfg' % (connectionType, connectionName), source) In the browser panel, locate the Tile Server entry and right click it to add a new service.Įnter the URL of the service which you would like to use, replacing x, y and z parts with curly brackets substitution as can be seen below.ĭouble Click the newly created entry to add the layer to the map.

This means, that there is no need for an external plugin although for an easy setup you can still use external plugins (see bottom of this post) and it offers various improvements over pure plugin based solutions. There is a core functionality XYZ Tile Server provider which was implemented with some other nice UX enhancements for tiled services (available since QGIS 2.18).

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