March 10, 2021

How to add a online topography basemap in QGIS - Tutorial

March 10, 2021/ Saul Montoya

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Latest developments in QGIS and online services allows us to create amazing maps in less time. Different types of basemaps are available XYZ tiles as terrain, satellite, road layers. This tutorial shows the procedure to add 2 types of topograpy layers in QGIS 3 behind geological features.

Tutorial

Basemaps links

Add this url on a new connection for a XYZ Tiles:

Esri Topography Map:

http://services.arcgisonline.com/ArcGIS/rest/services/Elevation/World_Hillshade/MapServer/tile/{z}/{y}/{x}

Open Topo Map:

https://tile.opentopomap.org/{z}/{x}/{y}.png