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QGIS Connector

The QGIS Connector facilitates a direct connection between the QGIS interface and Urban Strategy datasets. In this way, geospatial datasets can easily be downloaded from Urban Strategy, visualized and/or changed in QGIS, and uploaded back to the Urban Strategy scenario.

Time required: about 10 minutes
Prerequisites: installation of the desktop tools and an approved account with REST API access.

Learning objectives

  • How to enable the plugin in QGIS
  • How to connect QGIS to Urban Strategy
  • How to download and visualize a dataset from Urban Strategy in QGIS
  • How to upload a dataset from QGIS to Urban Strategy

Enable the plugin in QGIS

  1. Open QGIS

  2. Navigate to Plugins and choose Manage and Install plugins, the Urban Strategy Connector should be visible in the Installed section of the plugins panel.

  3. Activate the plugin by checking the QGIS Connector Urban Strategy Connector

No Urban Strategy Connector in QGIS plugins?

Check if the package is correctly installed. After installing desktop tools the QGIS Connector should be located in C:\AppData\Roaming\QGIS\QGIS3\profiles\default\python\plugins.

Connect QGIS to Urban Strategy

  1. In the QGIS browser panel, expand QGIS Connector Urban Strategy

  2. Click on add new connection

  3. Fill in the form using the values below and click OK.

    Field Value
    Protocol REST: https
    Hostname portal.urbanstrategy.nl
    Port 443
    Email your login credentials
    Email your login credentials

  4. REST:https://portal.urbanstrategy.nl:443 should now be visible in QGIS.

Unable to connect?

Double-check your login credentials and access level (REST API access required). If your organisation has Urban Strategy deployed on a dedicated machine, it could be that the protocol, hostname and port are different. In this case, please contact your administrator or reach out to the Scenexus support team.

Download a dataset from Urban Strategy to QGIS

Downloading data requires REST API Read access

To download collections from Urban Strategy to QGIS, REST API Read access is required.

  1. In the QGIS browser panel, expand REST:https://portal.urbanstrategy.nl:443 to show all Urban Strategy projects you have access to.

  2. In the QGIS browser panel, expand the project and data bin that contains the dataset you want to load into QGIS.

  3. Double-click the collection to load it into QGIS.

Upload a dataset from QGIS to Urban Strategy

When your account has REST API Read & Write access, saved edits in QGIS are automatically uploaded to the connected collection.