Orion Connect · QGIS plugin

OrionGIS, inside QGIS.

Search the datasets hosted on OrionGIS, add them to your QGIS project as live WMS and WFS layers, and send your own layers back to your OrionGIS workspace. Free and open source.

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Version 0.2.0 · 2026-10-31 · QGIS 3.22+ and QGIS 4 · GPL-2.0-or-later

What it does

Your desktop GIS, connected to the platform.

Search from QGIS

Find OrionGIS datasets by title or description in a search dialog inside QGIS.

Add live layers

One click adds a dataset as a WMS layer (raster) or WFS layer (vector), served live from OrionGIS, with nothing to download first.

Upload your layers

Send a GeoPackage, zipped Shapefile, GeoJSON or GeoTIFF from your machine into your OrionGIS workspace, ready for Map Studio, OrionAI and dashboards.

Jump to dashboards

Open your OrionInsights dashboards in the browser from the plugin's menu.

Install

Two ways to install it.

From the OrionGIS plugin repository

Recommended: QGIS tells you when an update is out.

  1. 1In QGIS, open Plugins → Manage and Install Plugins… and go to Settings.
  2. 2Under Plugin repositories click Add…, name it OrionGIS and paste the URL https://orionterrametrics.com/qgis/plugins.xml.
  3. 3Tick Show also experimental plugins (Orion Connect is marked experimental until 1.0).
  4. 4Go to All, search for Orion Connect and click Install Plugin.

From the ZIP file

  1. 1Download the plugin (orion_connect.0.2.0.zip).
  2. 2In QGIS, open Plugins → Manage and Install Plugins… and choose Install from ZIP.
  3. 3Select the file and click Install Plugin. The Orion Connect toolbar appears, and the menu is under Web → Orion Connect.
Details
Latest version
0.2.0 (2026-10-31)
QGIS
3.22 or newer, including QGIS 4 (Qt6)
Account
Not needed to search and add public layers. A free OrionGIS account is needed to upload.
Dependencies
None beyond QGIS itself
Privacy
Talks only to the OrionGIS server you choose, over HTTPS. Your password stays in memory for the session and is never saved to disk.
Licence
GPL-2.0-or-later (open source)
Plugin repository
https://orionterrametrics.com/qgis/plugins.xml
Learn more

Bring OrionGIS into your QGIS projects.

Install the plugin in a minute, or start with a free OrionGIS account and upload your first layer.

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