One of the more popular posts on this blog has been my piece on adding basemaps to QGIS. While the OpenLayer plugin is great, one of the things that I find dissatisfying is that it requires reprojecting your data to match the EPSG:3857 basemap. I often work in State Plane, and I’d just as soon have my data stay in that projection, which will also minimize local distortion. Well, as it turns out, one can add tiled map services as GDAL raster layers, with all the benefits that entails (e.