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Straight from QGIS

This page is for the GIS people who set the map up. Your QGIS project becomes a map anyone in your organisation can use.

The project is the configuration

Groundwork reads what you set up in QGIS Desktop and builds the app around it. Groundwork reproduces the symbology, field aliases, display fields, draw order and saved view.

Publish to a folder

Save the project and its GeoJSON layers to a Dropbox or OneDrive folder and point Groundwork at it. There is nothing else to install: Groundwork reads the map from that folder, on storage your organisation already runs.

The handover is a link

Set the map up in Groundwork and send a link. Your staff start work without needing to know any of the plumbing on this page. The Features page lists what your staff can do once they open it.

Edits are written back to your folder

On a Dropbox folder, Groundwork writes each save straight back to the layer's file, in your live data. Colleagues with the map open see the change within seconds, and your folder's own version history records every save. OneDrive and SharePoint maps are read-only today. Editing as a team covers what happens when two people save the same layer.

Already publishing with QGIS Server or WFS?

Groundwork also connects to live WFS servers, including QGIS Server, with full editing support. That path is part of the Teams plan on the Pricing page, and the Technology page describes the stack underneath.

Set it up

The Administrator Guide covers preparing the project in QGIS, publishing it to a cloud folder, and a worked tutorial.