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Try a demo map

Use a demo map to try Groundwork before you open a real map. On a demo map, all the editing tools are on. Groundwork saves each edit on your device only. When the page loads again, the demo map starts again with its original data. In five minutes, you can try most of the tasks that you will do on a real map.

Open Groundwork

Open app.groundwork.do.

  • If Groundwork shows a page of map cards, click Parks and recreation.
  • If Groundwork shows a map, look at the map name at the top of the panel. If the name is not Parks and recreation, click the name. Then choose Parks and recreation.

The map shows a small foreshore reserve that we invented. The panel beside the map lists its 16 Park assets, such as playgrounds, seats and barbecues.

Open a feature

Click Foreshore playground in the list, or click a point on the map. Groundwork highlights the feature on the map and opens its details in the panel. To return to the list, press the back arrow at the top.

Search and filter

Press the search button above the list. Type playground. The playgrounds show as results while you type. Click a playground to open it.

Next, click Seat in the legend below the layer name. The map and the list show only the seats, and the count shows 4 of 16. To remove the filter, click Seat again.

Bookmark a feature

To bookmark a feature, click the bookmark button on its row. The icon on the button becomes solid. To show only the features that you bookmarked, press the bookmark button above the list. To show the full list again, press the same button again.

Make an edit

Open Jetty lookout seat. Press Update. Change the condition from Poor to Good. To save, press the tick. Groundwork saves the change in this browser only, and nobody else can see it.

Start again

Reload the browser tab. Groundwork loads the map again from the start. The condition of the seat is Poor again, and your bookmark is gone.

Groundwork has two more demo maps:

  • Urban forest has street trees in Surry Hills. Each tree has an Inspections tab and a Maintenance tab.
  • Open space maintenance has mown areas across inner southern Brisbane. Each polygon has a Maintenance jobs tab and a Requests tab. The layer has two styles, and you can change between them in the layer’s ⋮ menu.

To open one of them:

  1. Click the map name at the top of the panel.
  2. Choose Create new map.
  3. On the page that opens, click the card for the map.

To go back to Parks and recreation, click the map name and choose it from the list.

When you are ready for a real map, read Open a map.

Open a map