Sharing a Map

There are two ways to share a map: give people access inside your workspace, or publish a public link that anyone can open.

Access inside your workspace

Access to a map comes from two places:

  • Workspace membership. Every member of the workspace has a baseline role.
  • Project grants. A map can grant a role to one person, or to the whole workspace.

Roles

  • Viewer can open the map, pan and zoom, query features, and read the data table.
  • Editor can do everything a viewer can, and edit layers, styles and annotations, add datasets, and invite people.
  • Owner can do everything an editor can, and publish, unpublish and delete the map.

Inviting people

Invite someone by email. The invitation creates a pending grant, and their role takes effect once they accept it.

An owner presses Publish to get a public link:

https://app.gisowl.com/map/{slug}
  • Anyone with the link can open the map without signing in.
  • The link is not listed anywhere.
  • The link has no password and no expiry date.
  • A published map is a snapshot. Edits you make afterwards appear on the public link only after you publish again.
  • Unpublishing removes the public copy immediately.

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