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: