From the course: Learning QGIS
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Add WFS data to QGIS
- [Instructor] Another type of vector data is the WFS, or Web Feature Services. This is an open geospatial consortium interface that streams vector data from a service directly into your map. Using a URL, you can pull that data right into QGIS. Let's get set up first. Under your XYZ tiles, you should be able to just drag and drop your open street map in. Now the area we're interested in is Hawaii, so we're going to zoom in and just center on Hawaii in your map. Now we're going to open up a browser and go to the Hawaii government site. It's called geoportal.hawaii.gov/search. And the first thing we're going to add are roads. So we're going to type roads, and we'll get the roads for Maui, so if we pick on roads, Maui, county. And under APIs, we're going to pick on WFS. They have a number here, they have WMS, which is raster, WFS, which is vector, geoservice, and a GEOJSON feed. In this case, we're going to grab the WFS link,…
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