Conquer the world about xyzservices

[giswqs]

@martinfleis Let me do some testing and will provide feedback here later. Thanks.

[sackh]

https://github.com/heremaps/here-map-widget-for-jupyter now also uses providers from xyzservices as basemaps :)

Note: I will do the release soon.

[darribas]

Update, as of #28 folium users and those of any other library that takes URLs can use xyzservices manually. For example:

import folium
import xyzservices.providers as xyz

tiles = xyz.CartoDB.Positron

folium.Map(
    location=[53.4108, -2.9358],
    tiles=tiles.build_url(),
    attr=tiles.attribution,
)

[martinfleis]

Holoviews also support tiles and has them hard-coded in their source code https://github.com/holoviz/holoviews/blob/master/holoviews/element/tiles.py

[giswqs]

xyzservices looks great. I look forward to adopting it for geemap and leafmap once it has a stable release.

BTW, any chance for supporting WMS services as well?

A lot of WMS services can be found at https://apps.nationalmap.gov/services

[martinfleis]

xyzservices looks great. I look forward to adopting it for geemap and leafmap once it has a stable release.

@giswqs Thanks! Is there anything you'd like to see to support it in your packages that is not in yet? For the use in contextily we already consider the current release stable.

BTW, any chance for supporting WMS services as well?

What do you need for that? It is just an URL, name, and attribution as it is with XYZ, right? I think it makes sense to add it to the mix, together with some attribute storing the service type. The same actually applies to vector tiles (where it may be a bit more complicated due to styles but doable as well).

[martinfleis]

Adding cartopy to the mix. They may be interested in supporting TileProvider object as well.

https://github.com/SciTools/cartopy/blob/master/lib/cartopy/io/img_tiles.py

[martinfleis]

I think that plotly currently does not support custom XYZ tiles in any form, only mapbox styles, so there's no place for us at the moment.

[krish-adi]

Greppo now supports xyzservices for its base_layer 🚀

[martinfleis]

@krish-adi nice! Thanks for letting us know!