You can load the Safecast Map as a layer in QGIS

[Jan Helebrant]

Dear colleagues,

thanks to a user community I am able to provide you a possibility to load Safecast Tile Map layer in QGIS. I was told this is a thing you can find out from the documentation so there should be no legal issues with using the map layer outside the Safecast web app - I hope...

The only thing you need is to download the *.QLR file to your PC and then drag and drop it to QGIS map window - the layer should load without need to set anything. There seem to be some error messages with the Safecast layer from time to time but I cannot say whether there is an issue with the QLR settings or this is Safecast related error...

enjoy

regards

Jan

[Rob Oudendijk]

Jan,

Great find. Very useful.

The only issue is that the map data you pull is old. 2023-08-04 is the last retiled data.

We are still working on getting the replacement going. Test are on GitHub at https://github.com/Safecast/Tilemap/tree/Local-version-rob

Here is a screenshot:

Warm Regards,

Rob Oudendijk

[Jan Helebrant]

Thanks,
I'll look forward to the new map. Then I'd update the file for loading into QGIS. I also found out that you can add a legend - I got a color scale image from Safecast GitHub (three color scales in one image) and cropped it to just one. The resulting PNG could be linked to QGIS. Works locally but would probably also load from somewhere on the web - I'll try loading from my GitHub...

Best regards

Jan

Dne středa 13. srpna 2025 v 3:08:42 UTC+2 uživatel oudend...@gmail.com napsal:

[Jan Helebrant]

Hi all, 

I just posted the qlr here

https://github.com/juhele/opengeodata/tree/master/GIS_supporting_layers/GIS_layers_5_Radiation_citizen_measurements

along with other citizen measurement data sources. It also loads a legend in QGIS - a PNG file from the Github.

enjoy

Jan

PS: if you are interested in visiting potentially "more radioactive" places, then you might be intersted in this dataset (PS: I cannot guarantee all the places are legally accessible)

https://github.com/juhele/opengeodata/tree/master/Open_geodataset_of_uranium_mines_and_deposits

Dne čtvrtek 21. srpna 2025 v 15:55:13 UTC+2 uživatel Jan Helebrant napsal:

[Rob Oudendijk]

Jan,

Thanks for all the work. 

Looks great!!

Regards

Rob Oudendijk

[Rob Oudendijk]

All,

The new map (with MCP server at https://simplemap.safecast.org/mcp-http and http-streaming protocol)  is getting better and better https://simplemap.safecast.org/

Warm Regards,

Rob Oudendijk

[Rob Oudendijk]

One more screenshot: 

[BRS_Maulwurf]

Uhhhh loooks awesome 

[Jan Helebrant]

Hi,

looks great but I am afraid you can easily overload it with the number of the points to display - and many points are probably overlapping and the certain zoom level so these are "useless" in that particular map view...

But I am really glad to see some progress.

BTW, is there any place managing the translations? This looks a bit strange to me, I would like to compare it with the English original and possibly correct it:

regards

Jan

Dne sobota 14. března 2026 v 17:04:37 UTC+1 uživatel pfinn...@outlook.com napsal:

[Rob Oudendijk]

Jan,

Thank you so much for mentioning the issue. In my mind I had the idea to do those things later, but I noticed too many irregularities with the setup and decided to tackle the translations. After an about one hour or so  got most languages converted. Not only the main text, but also an admin UI for customizing the languages. Some vide-coding and with Claude Opus made things much faster and easier.

Please refresh the pages and check. Please give me feedback.

Warm regards,

Rob Oudendijk