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QGIS cloud is a free platform to upload online and share your maps with anyone . QGis advantage is to have the chance of preparing your own maps using  Qgis and upload them online in a few clicks .

You will need to create a QGis Cloud account ( free , simple, quick) and install the QGis cloud plugin in your  QGis version.

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Create your QGis cloud account Go to http://qgiscloud.com/

Click on Sign Up and fill your account parameters

Done !

How to install the QGis cloud plugin

In QGis, go to Extension -> Install / Manage extensions . Look for the QGis Cloud plugin and click Installextension

You will a new a new item in the menu as Extension

You have everything you need to publish your maps on the Internet.

How to publish a map

The only constraint to respect is not adding rasters in the project . Therefore, you can have as many vector layers as you want, WFS layers and also WMS layers.

Let’s consider a simple example : a map with bicycle parkings in the city of Brest. By clicking on Cloud settings ( Extension -> Cloud -> Cloud settings ) we get the following window :

Click Login and fill your QGis Cloud account .

You must have a database in the cloud to store the data of your projects . The first time you are forced to create one . Afterwards you can to choose to create a new one ( up to five bases are authorized ) or to use an existing one.

Go to the  Account  tab. Click the Create button to create a database. Once the base is created or selected , you must load the data present in the QGis project . If you try to publish your map without having loaded the data , an error message will appear

Go to the  Upload Data tab. Select the layers and click Upload data.

To publish your map, go to  Map . You have two buttons. The first one allows choosing a background map for your map. The second publishes the map in the cloud.

To set the base map, click Add background layer

As you can see in the previous screenshot, you have a wide choice of background layers.

To finish the publication, just click on the Publish Map button . You will get the cloud addresses of your map.

As you can see you get a classic web address , an address for mobile terminals and a WMS address . What else?!!

You can consult the result by clicking on the address obtained : http://qgiscloud.com/SigEtTerritoires/velos

You can include in your project WFS or WMS connections . On the previous map , for example, you can add the available tracks cycling tracks in a WFS server for the city of Brest.

You can see the result at http://qgiscloud.com/SigEtTerritoires/cyclos2

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Atilio Francois