One more potential solution. QGIS has recently added support for vector tiles. Vector tiles have the scaling benefits of standard image map tiles while still behaving kind of like vector layers.
Add the ESRI World Basemap by creating a new vector tile service connection (in the browser) and for the Service URL enter: https://basemaps.arcgis.com/arcgis/rest/services/World_Basemap_v2/VectorTileServer . What will come up will look exactly like Esri's standard basemap, but go to the properties and you'll have the option to turn on and off layers and labels. So if you just want the streets, or the oceans or the city name labels you can uncheck everything else. On Thu, Apr 15, 2021 at 1:21 PM David Strip <[email protected]> wrote: > In addition to using a basemap solution as proposed in the previous > answers, you could download vector data for boundaries and cities from > Natural Earth <https://www.naturalearthdata.com/>, among other sources. > This would allow you to style the background information as you desire. > > On 15.04.21 20:23, Cassia Pahim wrote: > > Hello! I am searching for data of a background map where I can show my layers > on the east coast of Canada and US. I would like a background with the names > of the cities and not a satellite image. Do you guys know where I could find > that kind of data? Thanks a lot!! > > Cassia > > > > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-user mailing list > [email protected] > List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user >
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