If you are on the look for an aesthetic worldwide topographic map (with contour lines, …) OpenTopoMap is worth a “visit” (https://opentopomap.org). With “XYZ-Connections” it is also a quite usefull basemap within QGIS projects.
![](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.isticktoit.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/opentopoqgis1-1024x677.png)
OpenTopoMap is a topographic map out of data from OpenStreetMap and SRTM (see https://github.com/der-stefan/OpenTopoMap).
How to use it in QGIS:
- Open the Data Source Manager
- Add a new XYZ-Connection
- The recent URL for the tiles is: https://tile.opentopomap.org/{z}/{x}/{y}.png
![QGIS XYZ Connection for OpenTopoMap](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.isticktoit.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/opentopoqgis2-1024x523.png)