Websites normally use TMS for backgrounds, not WMS. WMS is generally a lot slower than TMS. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WMS might help with finding a WMS server for OSM data. To make your own WMS server you could either use a program that turns tiles to WMS or renders directly to WMS. There's a few listed on that wiki page.
There are plugins for QGIS that allow you to use a TMS background. There's an OpenLayers one that comes with a preset for osm.org mapnik. I use it and it works. You could also point QGIS at an osm2pgsql database although I don't suggest this if you are looking at a large area or import the entire planet into the database. From: Firmin,Mark [Ontario] [mailto:mark.fir...@ec.gc.ca] Sent: Friday, April 20, 2012 10:53 AM To: talk-ca@openstreetmap.org Subject: [Talk-ca] OSM Publicly available WMS server? Hello All, I may have asked this question a while back, but does anyone know of a publicly available open street map web mapping service that I can connect a wms client to? I have seen some really interesting websites that have a OSM underlay and I am assuming this is done using WMS. In the most recent Kubuntu OS, I've seen OSM used as a desktop background that you can interact with (zoom/pan). Amazing. I am using QGIS to verify some data and I would like to us OSM as an underlay. Thanks, Mark Firmin
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