This plugin provided by OpenPlanetary allow us to access various basemaps of Mars and The Moon. To explore its functionalities install the plugin in QGIS via the Plugins Manager.

Once installed, the OpenPlanetary Tile Loader icon is displayed in the Plugins Toolbar, as illustrated in the picture below:

Once opened, you can add Mars and Moon basemaps into your QGIS Project.

Let’s add the Mars Colour MOLA elevation basemap into our project.

Mars Shaded Grayscale MOLA Elevation

OPM Mars Basemap v0.2

In this way, we can get much closer to the surface of these celestial bodies and learn a lot more about them.

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Original post: Nuevo “plugin” de QGIS: “OpenPlanetary Tile Loader” – https://www.cursosgis.com/nuevo-plugin-de-qgis-openplanetary-tile-loader/

OpenPlanetary Tile Loader plugin – https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/optileloader/

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First of all, open the QGIS software and install the QuickMapServices plugin by going to the Plugins menu toolbar > Manage and Install plugins. The QGIS Plugins manager opens.

Type “QuickMapServices” in the search box and proceed by installing the plugin.

Once installed, an icon should appear in the Web Toolbar, as demonstrated in the image below:

When we click on this icon, we will see that we are limited to only NASA and OpenStreetMap basemaps. However, we can work this out by selecting the Settings option from this menu.

In the new window that will open, go to the “More services” tab and click on the Get contributed pack. This will add new services/basemaps to your QuickMapServices Plugin.

As a result, we have a list of 14 providers who offer a variety of services/basemaps.

Let’s explore the main basemaps available here.

• The ESRI package is one of the most comprehensive, with 15 available basemaps to add.

• The Google package includes some well-known options.

• In addition, the OSM package includes some interesting options.

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Original post: Quick Map Services: un plugin de uso sencillo para utilizar mapas base en QGIS
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QuickMapServices plugin – https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/quick_map_services/ 

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But if you want also to visualize, manage and analyze your data you can use the QGIS software and its QuickOSM plugin.

With the QuickOSM plugin, you can download OSM data thanks to the Overpass API. The Overpass API acts as a database over the web: the client sends a query to the API and gets back the data set that corresponds to the query (for more information check the next link https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Overpass_API).

In QGIS first of all you need to bring into your map canvas the OpenStreetMap Basemap. Then zoom in to your area of interest. In this exercise we choose an area south of Madrid City, around Ciudad Real.

In the next step we will proceed and install the QuickOSM Plugin. Go to Plugins > Manage and Install Plugins. Type OuickOSM in the Search Box and Install Plugin.

Go to Vector > QuickOSM to check if the plugin was installed correctly. You can also access the QuickOSM plugin by activating the QuickOSM Toolbar.

A new window will open. Here you need to select the Key – in our case we will select the highway key as we want to download the roads network of the zoom in area (Ciudad Real City).

the Value – subdivisions of the Key. In order to download all we will leave the first option selected (Query on all values).

the Limits of the download area – in our case we will select the Canvas Extend. This means that all OSM objects with the key “highway” in the Canvas Extend will be downloaded.

Click on Run Query.

The Query was successfully and you will receive a message. 3 layers have been loaded into your QGIS map canvas.

Deactivating the OpenStreetMap basemap we can observe better the layers just loaded.

3 layers (point, polygon and line type) are loaded. They represent elements related to the “highway” key such as: pedestrian areas (as polygon features), traffic signals, crossing points (as point features) and roads (as line features). Check their Attribute Table.

NOTE: These layers are temporary ones. In order to save them into your computer you must export them and save them.

Now you have a set of data which will help you in your future GIS analysis.

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