From the course: Learning QGIS
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Add WMS data
- [Instructor] Web Map Services, WMS, is a web-based protocol that serves up maps. Some of the layers could be originally in vector, but then received as raster. The WMS service will stream these tiles of images, such as PNG or JPEG, directly from the server into your QGIS client. These layers can be printed, or re-projected within QGIS. We're going to try one now. The one we're going to use is the NRCan Toporama, its a great name, but it's basically a topographic map of Canada. The URL, it's this big long one up here, it's the wms.ess-ws.nrcan.gc.ca/wms/toporama_en. Now, that's the basic URL but you also need to pass the "SERVICES=WFS" and you also have to say the "REQUEST" is "GetCapabilties", so I'm just going to copy that. And, if you are looking for a particular URL to the Toporama, just type NRCan Toporama and you'll get all sorts of links to this so you don't have to type it all in. But, I've got it here in…
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