I'm having trouble with the OpenLayers Plugin of Qgis and the map composer:
If I create an OSM-background layer and if I want to export this, the OSM-Layer looks perfectly all right in the normal qgis program window. But in the map composer and after export the layer has shifted relatively to my other shape layers (EPSG:32633 – WGS 84 / UTM zone 33N).
The second thing is that the output resolution of the exported osm-layer is very, very poor.
A really bad way of getting around this whole trouble would be to increase the screen resolution and make a screenshot of the map composition window of qgis. But I don't think this would be very professional. It also would cause a lot of pain 🙂
I'm using Qgis 1.8.0-Lisboa under Linux. The openlayers plugin is version 0.92.
Best Answer
It is a common bug, and there are many threads that deal with this.
A solution is to make your map element/object fit the map composer.
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