A QGIS plugin that adds official cadastral parcels from 29 European countries to your map as polygons, with their reference, country, area, municipality and source. It uses the Parcel GPS API.
Real result in QGIS 4.2. Imagery: Esri, Maxar, Earthstar Geographics.
- By reference: type a cadastral reference (the country is detected, or pick it).
- On the map: click anywhere and get the parcel under the cursor, in any project CRS.
- In batch: choose a table (CSV, spreadsheet, any layer) and the field that holds the references, plus an optional country field. A progress bar shows the run, which you can cancel. Per-minute rate limits (HTTP 429) are handled by waiting and retrying. If your monthly quota runs out, the run stops cleanly and tells you so.
- Every result goes into one memory layer, "Parcel GPS" (EPSG:4326, MultiPolygon), with the fields
reference,country,area_m2,municipality,province,address,latitude,longitude,sourceandfetched_at. Save it as GeoPackage, GeoJSON, Shapefile or KML with Save results..., or with Make Permanent in QGIS. - Ready to read: when the project has no basemap yet, the first result adds one under the parcels: satellite imagery (Esri World Imagery) by default, or OpenStreetMap, or none, chosen in the Map box of the panel and remembered. The map switches to Web Mercator (EPSG:3857) and frames the parcel with a margin. If your project already has a basemap or any raster layer, nothing is added. Parcels are drawn in translucent blue with a strong outline and labelled with their reference and area (m² below one hectare, ha above), with a halo that keeps them legible over imagery. The panel shows the reference, municipality, area and centroid of the last parcel.
- Official cadastre on top (Spain): for Spanish results, tick Show official cadastre layer to
add the Catastro INSPIRE WMS (
CP.CadastralParcel) and see the neighbouring parcels. It is off by default. - Clear messages for a bad API key, an exhausted quota, rate limits, countries without coverage and ambiguous references.
- The interface is in English, Spanish, French, German and Italian, following your QGIS language.
29 European countries: Spain (with the Basque Country and Navarre foral cadastres), Portugal, France, Italy, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Croatia, Bulgaria, Greece, Cyprus, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Iceland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Ireland and the United Kingdom (Scotland). You can search by reference in 27 of them and by clicking on the map in all 29. In Croatia and the UK the API works by coordinates only.
The data comes from the official cadastre of each country. The source field and the panel show the
attribution that the API returns.
| Option | Source | Attribution |
|---|---|---|
| Satellite (default) | Esri World Imagery | Esri, Maxar, Earthstar Geographics |
| Street map | OpenStreetMap standard tiles | © OpenStreetMap contributors |
| Official cadastre (Spain, optional overlay) | Dirección General del Catastro, INSPIRE WMS | Dirección General del Catastro |
The attribution is stored in each layer's metadata and shown in the panel. Tiles are fetched only for the area you are looking at, through the QGIS network stack and its cache; the plugin never downloads tiles in bulk, in line with the OpenStreetMap tile usage policy.
The plugin needs a Parcel GPS API key. The free plan gives 250 requests a month, and failed lookups are not charged. Paid plans start at 19 EUR a month, and there is an Enterprise plan for larger volumes.
Get a key at https://www.parcelgps.com/developers, paste it in the panel and click Save. The key is stored in your QGIS user settings and never written to the log.
A lookup by reference costs one request. A click on the map can cost two (point to reference, then the parcel). When the first answer has no outline, one more request fetches it. Each key also has a per-minute limit (10 a minute on the free plan, 60 to 300 on paid plans), so large batches on a free key take a while: the plugin waits and carries on by itself.
From QGIS (once it is published): Plugins > Manage and Install Plugins, search for "Parcel GPS" and click Install.
From a zip: download parcel_gps-<version>.zip from the
releases page, then in QGIS go to
Plugins > Manage and Install Plugins > Install from ZIP.
Works on QGIS 3.22 or later and on QGIS 4 (Qt6). No extra Python packages are needed. Requests go through the QGIS network stack, so your proxy and SSL settings apply.
- Open the panel from the Parcel GPS toolbar button or Web > Parcel GPS.
- Paste your API key and click Save.
- Type a reference such as
9872023VH5797S0001WXand press Fetch, or click Pick a parcel on the map and click on the map. - For a batch, choose the layer and the reference field (and a country field if your list mixes countries), then click Fetch all. Batches larger than 25 references ask for confirmation first.
pip install pytest pytest-cov
python -m pytest # tests and coverage for parcel_gps/core
python scripts/build_translations.py # needs lrelease (pip install pyside6-essentials)
python scripts/build_zip.py # dist/parcel_gps-<version>.zip, ready for plugins.qgis.orgparcel_gps/core has no QGIS imports: it holds the API client, response parsing, batch runner,
error mapping and the presentation rules (style, label expression, area format, basemap catalogue and
detection), and it is fully covered by tests. The QGIS side (dock.py, fetch_task.py,
results_layer.py, map_style.py, basemap.py, qgis_transport.py) builds the panel, runs requests
in a QgsTask, writes and styles the layer and adds the basemap.
GPL-2.0-or-later. See LICENSE.
Made by The Hidden Panda. Issues and ideas: https://github.com/TheHiddenPandaDev/qgis-parcel-gps/issues