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I've installed QGIS 3 today. I found the xyz tiles option and have added e.g. google, openstreet, and ESRI Topo. These all work and show the map. Now I'm looking for a topo map, so ESRI topo is a nice starting point. Unfortunately I find it a bit blurry on the font, and the lines a bit to light.
Does someone know working XYZ topo entries? I can find some XYZ tile servers for topo, but they are often not downloading tiles
Have you made sure your maps are using the same CRS as the tiles and conform with the zoom level default scales? (see below)
Use the Same Native CRS as Tiles
Most XYZ tiles are produced in CRS - EPSG:3857 . When using a different CRS this can skew the image and make the labels more difficult to read. See below
Conform with Zoom level default scales
XYZ tiles layers only produce labels at certain scales for a particular projection (typically CRS - EPSG:3857). Open street maps produces tiles at these default scales
So if you make sure any maps you produce use these same scales the labels should be legible. In the example below 1:4000 displays the same tile as 1:6000, but the 1:6000 is obviously not as legible
That's not because of your locale. Open Street Map uses Hebrew labels in Israel by default. According to the OSM Wiki there's no web feature service of OSM data, so you're stuck using pre-generated tile sets. As far as I can tell, OSM doesn't have a tile server with English-only labels.
You can add English labels to your map in this way:
These labels will sit on top of your existing base map. With the standard OSM base map you'll see Hebrew and English labels. QGIS can't tell where the labels are in the basemap, so the English labels may overlap the Hebrew ones.
You can try various other base maps.
To get other base maps, install the plugin QuickMapServices, open the plugins Settings, and under "more services" choose the option to "get contributed pack." Some have labels in English. Others have no labels at all, which will allow you to see only the labels that you put on the map.
Here are a few examples that may be useful:
Google Roads uses English labels, if you're willing to tolerate the addition of various businesses to the map.
ESRI Standard uses a combination of English and Hebrew labels.
Bing Map uses mostly English labels
CartoDB Dark Matter and Positron are available with no-label versions
IMPORTANT: Before publishing a map, be sure to read the terms and conditions for the basemap to make sure you're allowed to use that basemap for your project. Many require a particular attribution.
Per the suggestion from @scai, wikimedia.org provides base maps where the labels are all in one language. The English-language base map can be found here: https://maps.wikimedia.org/?lang=en
Also see this list of tile servers that provide multilingual tiles: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_internationalization#Tile_servers
Best Answer
Open Topo Map:
Thunderforest (Landscape)