Hi, Josselyn. I'm a novice QGIS user, so you'd probably wait for someone more experienced.
WFS (VECTOR) layers are cacheable, meaning you can save them with the "save" option (if you have the translated version it shows as "Guardar"). But WMS (TILE) layers and Web layers are not cacheable - you can't save them, and in some cases you can't even print them. If you want to avoid downloading maps once and again, you could use a third party software to download the tiles. Look for "tile downloader". I used such approach one year go, but I don't remember the configuration details. There is also a "work offline" plugin. I haven't tested yet, and I'm away from my computer, so I can't be very informative --sorry! Another solution I use to apply is georeferencing a downloaded map, since my country offers free scanned maps for noncommercial usage. But, as I read on the official ign.gob.pe, Peru *sells* the scanned/shp maps -- and they seem very expensive. Saludos desde España 2014-08-05 18:25 GMT+02:00 Josselyn Agura <josselynagur...@gmail.com>: > Dearest Zoltan - > > I am running QGIS 2.4 on a Mac OSX v. 10.9.4. I am able to load Vector > layers into a project, but whenever I try to load a map - either > OpenStreetMap, Google Physical, etc - it takes ages to finally load. Is > there a way I can download specific maps to the program instead of having > to load them from the internet each time? > > Best > > Health Mapping in Peru > > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-user mailing list > Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user >
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