About

Who is Vectoria

Vectoria's vision is to help organisations of any size to manage, update and share critical, time-sensitive, location-based information.

Vectoria's founder, Simon O'Keefe, also founded Pozi, the popular web GIS platform used by local government across Australia.

Email Simon at simon.okeefe@vectoria.com.au.

Why another web map tool

In most organisations a GIS team maintains the authoritative data, while the staff who know the ground can see the map but not change it. So staff send updates to the GIS team as emails and spreadsheets, and someone there enters them by hand.

Each of the usual tools makes it hard to keep one dataset current. Desktop GIS is a lot of software to install and learn for a single task. Web GIS platforms are priced for a whole organisation. Field capture apps are built for a phone, so they don't help the same person back at their desk. And the licensing for all of them is complex.

With Groundwork, the GIS team publishes straight from QGIS, staff open a link, and the people closest to the data are the ones keeping it right. The Use cases page shows what that looks like day to day.

Built around one layer

Groundwork started with a question. What would a mapping application look like if it were built for someone with only one layer to look after? It could make sense to them the first time they open it, even if they've never used GIS.

When you open Groundwork, the data you look after is already on the screen. The time we saved went into making it a pleasure to use: how you find the feature you want, and how few steps it takes to change it.