I agree that the QuickMapServices plugin is the answer to basemap imagery. I had been using the ESRI world imagery as a basemap. Superior to Google Earth since there is no registration problem with other data layers as there is with the GE imagery. Additionally, there seems to be no restriction for noncommercial data use as with GE, provided the data is credited to ESRI.
However, I managed to somehow corrupt the 2.10 original install-something to do with the style manager/color ramps. After several very tedious attempts to do clean installs I finally managed to get 2.10 to run again. Unfortunately, the QuickMapServices button for the ESRI data no longer exists. I did find the same imagery through the ArcGIS REST API Connector plugin. My existing projects still have the "ArcGIS Online Imagery" layer created through the lost plugin that is functional. Both this layer and the REST basemaps are from the http://server.arcgisonline.com/ArcGIS/rest/services/World_Imagery/MapServer I am very new to QGIS, so I learned too late where to find the traceback data so as to provide further info about the corruption of my original 2.10, which had the QMS ESRI button. This post is just to provide an imagery suggestion and to mention the bug? (which I did not report formally) with the disappearing QMS ESRI button. Thank you to all of you who continue to provide and support such a superior GIS application as QGIS. Patty Rehn
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