Including Koordinates datasets to QGIS projects

There are two ways to include Koordinates data into your QGIS project.

Add

Once you’ve searched and located the dataset that you want included, select the Add + button. The dataset will be added to your current QGIS project.

Note: Regardless of the dataset type, it will be added to the project as a Web Map Tile Service (WMTS), which can be considered as similar functionality as a raster layer.

Projection

By default the data will be added in WGS 84 Pseudo-Mercator EPSG:3857, although you can alter this as required to suit your projects requirement.

Clone

Cloning a layer creates a local copy of the dataset onto your PC, to be added to the project.

Note: Cloning is only available for these data types:

• vector
• point cloud (only if you’re an administrator of the dataset).

Cloning uses the Kart plugin, which you can also use to pull the latest changes to your copy.

Unlike Adding data, this data will retain the data type, and will be as interactable as it is within Koordinates.

When the dataset allows, you’ll be able to interrogate the data, view the underlying table and attributes, and conduct calculations.

Who can clone

You can clone a dataset if you’re allowed to download it and the site offers Kart services for it. If you can’t clone a dataset, the plugin tells you when you select Clone.

To clone a dataset

1. Search and locate the dataset in the Koordinates plugin

2. Select Clone

3. Choose your clone settings

The clone settings window will open where you can set:

• where the data is cloned to

  

• the storage type

  

• whether to set a spatial filter

4. QGIS will clone the dataset

The dataset will appear in the QGIS browser.

Regardless of where the data is cloned to, it can be accessed via the Koordinates QGIS Browser folder shortcut.

5. Select the dataset, then the layer you want to include in your project

The layer will be added, and can be viewed, queried or used in analysis.