Project: QGIS

Version: 3.16

Feature: ArcGIS Vector Tile Service connections

An option to create connections for ArcGIS Vector Tile Services was added to allow users to easily load vector tile layers from ArcGIS Server vector tile services. It also added support for authentication, configuration, and custom referer string to vector tile connections.

This change adds explicit UI options for adding and configuring connections to ESRI vector tile services. While these services use the standard vector tile framework for data retrieval, they can be directly added by creating a connection using the VectorTileService API endpoint on the ArcGIS server.

After a user adds a layer from a VectorTileService, the server's default styling and labeling for the layer is automatically loaded.

This feature was developed by Nyall Dawson