##About
qgis-openlayers-plugin is a QGIS plugin embedding OpenLayers functionality.
It allows you to add basemaps to QGIS from:
- Google Physical, Google Streets, Google Hybrid, Google Satellite
- OpenStreetMap
- OpenCycleMap, OCM Landscape, OCM Public Transport
- Yahoo Street, Yahoo Hybrid, Yahoo Satellite
- Bing Road, Bing Aerial, Bing Aerial with labels
- Apple iPhoto map
- Stamen Toner/OSM, Stamen Watercolor/OSM, Stamen Terrain-USA/OSM
##Installation
Installation is simple in recent versions of QGIS, just go to:
- Start QGIS
- From the Plugins menu -> click Fetch Python Plugins menu item
- Click "Add 3rd Party Repositories" in the repositories tab. It'll do some stuff.
- Search for and install "OpenLayers Plugin" in the Plugins tab.
- Restart QGIS, and find your new menu under Plugins -> OpenLayers Plugin.
- When you pan and zoom, QGIS will automatically update the linked basemap layer.
Read more at indicatrix blog »
NOTE: Minimum QGIS version seems to be 1.7.4?
Does not work with 1.7.0 due to missing OSGEO python dependencies.
##Attribution
If you include these basemaps in your final map layout, make sure to credit the original author.
##Extras
Need a basemap that reprojects out of web Mercator on the fly? Check out the "goodies" folder here.
http://hub.qgis.org/projects/openlayers
http://build.sourcepole.ch/qgis/plugins.xml
##License
qgis-openlayers-plugin is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
Copyright (c) 2010 Pirmin Kalberer & Mathias Walker, Sourcepole AG