Web Maps

The viewer at a glance#

Everything is a panel. The left rail holds the map-wide tools: Add (bring in content), Layers, Tables (the feature table), Basemap, Legend, Bookmarks, Properties and Export. Select a layer and a second rail appears on the right with the per-layer tools: Props, Styles, Filter, Pop-ups, Fields, Labels and Related. On the canvas you get a place-search bar, zoom controls with Fit all layers, a legend widget, an overview minimap, and a bottom bar with live cursor coordinates (DD, DMS, UTM or MGRS) and a true 1:N scale readout.

Adding content#

• My Content — feature services, tile layers, vector tile layers, imagery and WMS from your organization’s portal.
• Tile Layers — any public XYZ or WMS service by URL.
• Upload — drop a file straight into the map. It runs the normal upload pipeline and the layer appears when processing finishes.

Styling layers#

The Styles panel offers three symbology modes: Single (one color), Graduated (a numeric field classed over a color ramp — Quantile, Equal Interval or Manual breaks, 2–7 classes, per-class colors and sizes) and Categorical (distinct colors per value, up to 50 values). Over twenty color ramps ship built in, including Viridis and the colorblind-safe Wong palette. Points get a size slider and a curated icon set (wind turbines, hydrants, schools, harbors and some forty more); lines and polygons get width, solid/dashed/dotted borders, border position and separate fill and border opacity.

• Layer properties — name, opacity slider, and a Scale Interval so a layer only renders between chosen zoom levels.
• Clustering — for point layers: on/off, a Tight↔Wide radius slider, and count labels on the cluster circles.
• Layer groups — create, rename, collapse, hide and reorder groups; drag layers between them.
• Labels — field-driven text labels per layer, configured in the Labels panel.

Filters — rules, SQL and AI#

The Filter panel stacks attribute rules (equals, not equals, greater/less than, contains, starts with, is empty…) combined with AND or OR, each rule individually toggleable. For more, write a definition expression — a SQL-style WHERE clause like "status" = 'active' AND "area" > 100 — validated against the server before it applies, with a live matched-feature count. Or press the AI button and describe the filter in plain words (“parks larger than 10 ha in the North region”) — OrbGIS writes and validates the expression for you. See AI assistance.

Pop-ups#

Pop-ups are composed from ordered blocks: a fields table (choose and order the attributes), rich text with {field} variables, and related records from layer relationships. The title is a template with field variables too. Field aliases and number/date formats come from the Fields panel and apply everywhere — pop-ups and the feature table alike. When a click hits several features, the pop-up pages through them with Prev/Next.

The feature table#

The Tables panel opens the attribute table for any feature layer: sortable columns, search, 50–200 rows per page, resizable columns, and click-a-row to select and highlight that feature on the map. The table honors active filters and shows joined columns from 1:1 relationships.

Basemaps#

The gallery ships over twenty basemaps across General, Imagery and Topographic categories: CARTO (Voyager, Light, Dark), Esri (Imagery, Streets, Topographic, National Geographic and more), OpenTopoMap, Lantmäteriet (Topografisk and Nedtonad, native EPSG:3006), GISCO Europe styles (native EPSG:3035), Kartverket Norway (native EPSG:25833) and a deliberate blank canvas. The gallery hides basemaps that can’t render in your map’s CRS. You can also add your own XYZ, WMS or WMTS basemap — for just this session, or saved to the organization’s gallery.

Navigation extras#

• Bookmarks — save named views, fly between them, reorder, and import/export them as JSON.
• Place search — address and place geocoding (OpenStreetMap Nominatim) with autocomplete and recent searches; right-click the map for a reverse lookup.
• Legend — auto-generated from each visible layer’s symbology, as a panel and as an on-map widget.

Saving and sharing#

Save with the header button or Ctrl+S; the first save asks for a title, description and folder. There is no autosave in the map viewer — an Unsaved pill and a leave-guard protect pending changes. Share gives members of your organization a direct link and QR code. A map becomes publicly visible only when a published dashboard, journey or survey embeds it — see Sharing & publishing. Exporting the view as an image is covered in Exports.