 Hello welcome back on my youtube channel. In this video we are going to explore the QGIS Hub. Through the QGIS Hub you can share styles, projects, models, 3d models and QGIS layer definition files. You can find the hub on plugins.qgs.org but in this video we are going to see how to connect to these hubs using the QGIS Hub plugin. As you see many styles are shared through the QGIS Hub and in this video we are going to use one of these styles and add it directly to QGIS using the QGIS Hub plugin. We are going to demonstrate that using these exponential coastline buffers developed by Klaus Karlsson. To connect to the QGIS Hub using QGIS you need to install the QGIS Hub plugin. Go to the plugins manager and search for QGIS Hub. Click install plugin to install the plugin. Click close to hide the dialog and you will see now an icon for the QGIS Hub. Click the icon. The first time the QGIS Hub explorer will load a bit slow to load all the images here but once it's loaded you can start exploring it by looking at resource types like style, geo package or model. With the slider you can increase the size of the chip images. You can find geo packages with projects and models. Here we focus on styles. Let's use the search box to find the exponential coastline style from Klaus Karlsson that we saw on the website. That's the one and now I can click on download to download the style or directly add it to QGIS. Now the style is added to my profile and I can use it in my QGIS projects in that profile. To demonstrate what we want to achieve with this style I'm going to install another plugin. It's called Topo Taitres which is a time travel plugin for the Netherlands to download historic maps of the Netherlands. If I click the button of the plugin it will load all the old maps of the Netherlands and here we can see the coastlines as they made that in the past and this is exactly what we want to achieve with this nice style. I've loaded a recent map that doesn't have that styling and I've also loaded a polygon layer that we're going to use to create a style. This is a recent layer with the boundaries of the islands. Now this style that we've downloaded can only be applied to the inside of water bodies. I don't have that layer so I'm going to apply it to an inverted polygon. With inverted polygons you can style everything outside of the polygon boundary. Under all symbols I can now find the exponential coastline buffers and when I click it it will load immediately and be applied. Now we can further improve this. Let's add an extra style layer and we use a simple fill but we create light blue for the sea outside of the island and now we see our coastlines nicely above. The lines are now by default gray and let's make them dark blue. That already looks nice. Let's look at other islands and that works fine. Now we can change the stroke width to get a more subtle effect. We can also go to the geometry generator that was used to create this style and we can see here that we can adjust some values to play with the intervals. If I change the second value from four to eight you see that the lines will extend further. If I make it two it will stay close to the shore. If I change the last value it will change the amount of lines that it will draw. If I make it very small I will get a lot of little lines. In the original old map we saw that the lines extended over the sea so I'll make a bigger value of the second value and the first value determines where the lines start so if I make it bigger you'll see that it starts far from the shore. So in this video you've learned how to use the QGIS Hub plugin to download styles and when you have a style you can further modify it to your needs. In the same way you can use the QGIS Hub to download models and change the graphical models according to your needs.