Adding WMS data

- Web Map Services, WMS, is a web-based protocol…that serves up maps.…Some of the layers could be originally in vector…but when received are raster.…The WMS service will stream tiles of images…such as PNG and JPG directly from the server…into your QGIS client.…These layers can be printed or reprojected within QGIS.…Let's find a WMS service to use within QGIS.…So we're going to use Natural Resources Canada's website…so nrcan is the short form for…Natural Resources Canada Federal Government…and we'll go to the Toporama maps in the WMS service.…

If we do that, we do a search for…nrcan toporama wms,…you'll see that the second link, the WMS-Toporama,…is what we want.…You'll see all the XML, so I'm going to copy…that whole URL, make sure you get the…request=GetCapabilities&service=wms.…We'll copy that.…We'll open up QGIS.…We'll say Layer, Add Layer,…Add WMS/WMTS.…There we go, and for Layers we'll hit New.…

And we'll just call it NRCAN.…The URL will be the same one we just used,…so I'll paste that in, hit OK,…and now we have an NRCAN listed at the top here.…