Everything about how OrbGIS works, from your first sign-in to your first published dashboard. Written from the actual product, and searchable from every page.
Short tutorials that take you from a blank browser tab to a published map, dashboard or site.
Set up your OrbGIS organization in a few minutes, no credit card, no sales call. One sign-up creates your account, your organization and your portal.
Bring colleagues into your organization by email invitation. Invites are sent from the Admin area, are valid for 7 days, and can carry a role.
The Admin area is your organization’s control room: overview statistics, members and roles, invitations, an activity log, and the settings that apply to everyone.
Drop a file into the portal and get a hosted, tiled, styleable layer, then describe it so the rest of your organization can find it.
From an empty map to a styled, saved web map: add a layer, pick a basemap and a coordinate system, style it, and save. Takes about ten minutes with your own data.
Switch a web map to 3D, raise its buildings from a height field, add laser data and run a sun and shadow study, then publish it so visitors get the same view.
Turn a web map into a live operational view: indicators, charts and tables around the map, all bound to the same layers, click a chart and the map filters.
Build a scroll-driven story around your maps: a cover, narrative text, an embedded map, stat callouts and a guided map tour, then publish it to a public URL.
Design a form, publish it, and watch answers land in a live dataset, one column per question, with the location answer as point geometry.
Install OrbGIS Mobile on your phone, open a survey and record answers, position and photos on site. The records are on the map before you are back in the car.
Gather your published maps, dashboards, journeys and surveys on one public site with its own menu, theme and address, starting from a template.
Compose a print-ready sheet from a web map: a map frame at a true scale, a legend, a scale bar, a north arrow and your own text, exported as PDF, PNG or JPEG at print resolution.
Set your organization’s colors, fonts, corner radius and spacing once, then every dashboard, journey, survey and layout can inherit them, live.
Rename cryptic fields, fix types, calculate a new column and publish the result, a spreadsheet pass over a whole layer, without touching its geometry.
Install the OrbGIS Connector, sign in from QGIS, pull a hosted layer onto the canvas, and push your edits straight back to the portal.
One page per OrbGIS app, what it does, how it works, and the details that matter.
The map viewer is the heart of OrbGIS: style, filter, label and share vector layers in the browser, in the coordinate system you actually work in.
Every web map has a 3D view: real terrain, your layers draped on it, buildings raised from a height field, laser point clouds, 3D city models and a sun and shadow study. Published maps keep the view.
A dashboard is your web map plus the numbers around it, indicators, charts, tables and filters bound to the same layers, with crossfiltering everywhere.
Scroll-driven storytelling with maps: a full-screen cover, then text, media and interactive maps that advance as the reader scrolls.
Collect field data with a themed form that writes straight into a live feature layer, respondents only need a link, not an account.
The field app for surveys: sign in on the phone, pick a survey and record answers, GPS position with its accuracy and photos. Every record is a point in the survey’s layer the moment it is sent.
Build public sites from blocks: one address for the maps, dashboards, journeys and surveys you publish, with your own menu, theme, subpages and domain.
Millimeter-precise sheets built from your web maps: true scales, legends, scale bars and north arrows, exported as PDF or images at print DPI.
Design your organization’s look once, colors, fonts, chart ramp, radius and spacing, and every dashboard, journey, layout and survey inherits it.
The home for everything your organization makes: browse, search, organize and manage all content, maps, datasets, apps and files, in one place.
The OrbGIS Connector brings your portal into QGIS: browse your layers, load them into projects, edit live, and publish new datasets back, free and open source.
The machinery underneath: data upload, editing, sharing, roles, exports and coordinate systems.
Drop a file, get a layer. Uploads run in the background through a real ingest pipeline, reprojection, indexing, tiling and automatic overviews for large datasets.
A spreadsheet for your layers: clean, calculate, restructure and publish a dataset’s complete attribute table, without touching its geometry.
Datasets are OrbGIS’s working unit: hosted feature layers and attribute tables with typed fields, relationships, statistics, and vector tiles behind every map.
Two independent switches govern who sees what: Ownership (Private or Organization) inside your org, and Publishing for the open web, for maps, apps and sites, with a clear exposure check.
Four fixed roles, Viewer, Editor, Publisher, Admin, decide who can create, publish and administer. No custom roles to design, nothing to misconfigure.
Get finished output out of OrbGIS: map images up to print resolution, layout PDFs, and CSV extracts of your data.
Work in the CRS your organization actually uses. SWEREF 99, ETRS89 grids and more are first-class citizens, not everything is forced through Web Mercator.
Two places in OrbGIS let you describe what you want in plain words and get a working result, filters and rich text. Always optional, always validated.
Deleting is reversible: items move to a recycle bin and stay restorable for 30 days before being permanently removed.
A free, public tool at orbgis.se/converter that converts Esri file formats to open formats, no account needed, and every conversion comes with an honest report of what survived.