Browser sign-in — approve once, and QGIS gets its own session. No password typed into QGIS.
The OrbGIS Connector puts your portal inside QGIS. Sign in through your browser, add your organization's layers with one click, edit with the full QGIS toolbox, and Save Edits pushes straight back.
Browser sign-in — approve once, and QGIS gets its own session. No password typed into QGIS.
We didn't build a heavy desktop editor. QGIS already is one — the best there is, and it's free. So the Connector is a small dock panel that wires QGIS 3.34+ to your OrbGIS portal. Click Sign in and your system browser opens the OrbGIS consent page; approve it and you're in. No password is ever typed into QGIS, and the session is stored encrypted in the QGIS auth database, not in a plaintext config file.
Once signed in, the dock lists your organization's feature layers. Add to map downloads a layer as a GeoPackage into a managed folder under your QGIS profile and adds it to the project — no save dialog, no CRS wizard, and the file arrives in the layer's own coordinate system, so a SWEREF 99 dataset stays SWEREF 99. The layer is live: toggle editing, use whatever QGIS tools you like — snapping, topology checks, field calculator — and hit Save Edits. Your adds, moves, attribute edits and deletes go to OrbGIS in one atomic batch, with automatic retry on network blips. When you stop editing, the server refreshes the layer's zoomed-out overviews on its own. Web maps pick up the changes on the next tile load.
Publishing new data is a drag: pull a layer from the Layers panel onto the Upload drop zone and it's exported to GeoPackage and hosted through the same ingest pipeline as a web upload. Everything travels over the OrbGIS API — there are no database credentials on anyone's laptop, and the same row-level tenant isolation applies to QGIS as to the browser. The plugin is pure Python with zero pip dependencies, licensed GPL like QGIS itself, and installs from our plugin repository: add one URL, and QGIS handles installation and updates from then on.
Sign in opens your system browser at the OrbGIS consent page; approve and the dock flips to signed in. Tokens live encrypted in the QGIS auth database — never in the plaintext profile.
Every layer in the catalogue has an Add to map button. It downloads a GeoPackage to a managed folder and adds it to your project — no save dialog, and the data arrives in its own CRS. SWEREF 99 in, SWEREF 99 out.
Edit with the full QGIS toolbox, then Save Edits pushes adds, moves, attribute edits and deletes in one atomic batch. Network blips retry automatically; if two people save the same layer, the last save wins.
When an editing session ends, the server queues a rebuild of the layer's zoom-level overviews. The countrywide view catches up without you doing anything.
Drag a layer from the Layers panel onto the Upload drop zone and it becomes a hosted layer — same ingest pipeline as the web, nine vector and table formats, resumable uploads for big files.
The plugin talks only to the OrbGIS API. The same row-level tenant isolation that guards the web app guards QGIS. There is nothing to leak from a field laptop.
GPL, like QGIS itself. Pure Python, zero pip installs, runs on QGIS 3.34 LTR through QGIS 4. Add our plugin repository once and updates arrive through QGIS's own plugin manager.
In QGIS: Plugins → Manage and Install Plugins → Settings → Add, paste app.orbgis.se/plugins/plugins.xml, install OrbGIS Connector. That's the last manual install you'll do — updates come through QGIS.
Click Sign in. Your browser opens the OrbGIS consent page; approve it and the dock shows who you are. Wrong browser opened? There's a copyable sign-in link under the button.
The dock lists your organization's feature layers. Add to map pulls each one down as a GeoPackage, in its native coordinate system, straight into your project.
Toggle editing, do your work, Save Edits. Changes land in OrbGIS batched and atomic, and web maps show them on the next tile load.
Drag any layer from the Layers panel onto the Upload drop zone. It's hosted as a new layer in your portal, ready to style and share from the web.
No demo call. No sales funnel. Just sign up and start mapping.