Features
Set up a map in QGIS and the cloud storage you already use, and your whole organisation can keep it up to date.
Connect the data you already have
Groundwork reads the sources your team already publishes to, with no migration and no new database. The QGIS path in full is on Straight from QGIS.
QGIS projects
A project saved as .qgs or .qgz loads with its symbology, field aliases, display fields, draw order, scale ranges and saved view intact. You do not set anything up twice.
WFS and QGIS Server
Load layers from the services your organisation publishes, including Esri-hosted WFS.
OGC API - Features
Connect a service from its landing page and add its feature and imagery collections as layers.
Dropbox, OneDrive and SharePoint
Sign in and browse to the folder your team already works in.
Public GitHub repositories
Open a public repository, folder or QGIS project as a read-only map, with no account needed.
GeoJSON, GeoParquet, FlatGeobuf and raster files
Publish any of them to a cloud folder. GeoJSON is drawn with its matching style; GeoParquet, FlatGeobuf and GeoTIFF load as read-only layers.
External STAC catalogues
Pick the collections you need from a published catalogue, or the items filed inside one. GeoJSON, GeoParquet, FlatGeobuf and WFS load as features; PMTiles and COG are drawn as images.
Capture and edit
The people who know the ground make the change themselves, and it is saved to your live data. See In the field.
Drawing and reshaping
Draw new features and adjust existing ones directly on the map, or place one at an address or at your device's own position.
Direct writes to your source
Full WFS transaction support, so there is no copy of the data to keep in sync.
Copy and paste
Copy a feature and paste it back where it was or somewhere new, straight from your system clipboard.
Live updates across the team
On a shared folder, a teammate's save appears on everyone else's open map in a second or two.
Records attached to a feature
The inspections on a tree or the jobs done to it open as tabs on that feature's details, and your team adds and edits them there.
Photos on a record
A record shows its photo above its fields, and the feature's own card shows the one from its most recent record.
Live measurements
Label a line's length or a polygon's area and perimeter, updating live while you draw or reshape it.
Access control per link
Choose whether a link opens for anyone as view-only, or asks for sign-in and lets them edit. See Data and trust.
Forms from QGIS Coming soon
The app will show the forms you set up in QGIS, the way it already shows your styling.
Find what you're looking for
Search and filtering
Search across a feature's attributes and the records attached to it, filter a layer from its legend or a button per field, and read every field in a side panel.
Travel-distance sorting
Order features by real travel distance from a searched address, with walking, cycling and driving measured together, then draw the route to the one you pick.
Street View
Open Google Street View facing a feature, above that feature's details.
Bookmarks
Bookmark a feature to badge it on the map, narrow the list to your bookmarks, and keep it among the nearest results.
Orientation tools
A collapsible legend, location search, a scale bar, style icons per feature, metric or US units, and light and dark themes.
Maps that look right
Your layers draw the way you published them, with no re-styling for the web.
Your published symbology
Styling comes straight from your WFS/WMS server, so features look the same as in the maps you already publish.
QGIS styling
Groundwork draws the symbology, marker sizes and labels that you set in QGIS Desktop, including label fonts, colours and halos.
Flexible basemaps
A street map and aerial imagery with street names on top, drawn light or dark to match the app. A shared map opens on the one you chose.
Layer styling
Switch between a layer's published styles, set its own symbol and colour, or colour every value in one of its fields.
Handing the map over
Your team gets the map as a link. They click it and start work, with nothing to install and nothing for them to set up.
Share links
Your team opens the map with your layers, filters, sort order and starting area already set.
Updatable links
When someone opens an updated link, Groundwork updates the map they already have, and keeps any name they gave it.
Live data on every open
Groundwork reads the data source each time the map opens, so changed data needs no new link. Send one when the setup changes.
Required start location
Set a link to ask whoever opens it where they are before the map appears.
Open standards
Groundwork reads and writes the OGC standards your organisation already publishes with, and doesn't change your data's format. See Data and trust for where it is stored and what Groundwork keeps.
Try it on your own data
The app is free to use with a Dropbox folder. For OneDrive, SharePoint or live WFS servers, there's the Teams plan.