Use cases
Every dataset deserves a custodian
A custodian is the person who knows a dataset best and is trusted to keep it right. Groundwork makes your staff the custodians of the data they already work with: each gets the layers they're responsible for, and their changes are saved to the organisation's live data. If your team keeps records about places, you can publish them as a Groundwork map.
Asset and infrastructure defects
A crew finds a cracked footpath and logs it on the spot from a phone. Zoom the map to it, and send a contractor a link that opens on that spot.
Parks, trees and open space
A tree register stays accurate when the arborist inspecting the tree can update its record there and then. Everyone who opens the register next sees the change.
Environmental monitoring
On a site visit, environmental officers map what they find: weed outbreaks, revegetation plots and watercourse condition. The rest of the team sees each new record the next time they open the map.
Planning and development
Planners record what they see on a site visit, from a heritage detail to the state of a development site, on the same map the office reads.
Public health and compliance
Compliance work is a list of places: food-premises checks, pool barriers, septic systems. Groundwork keeps that list on a map, ordered by real travel distance, so an officer can work through an area in one pass.
Emergency management
Share sandbag points, evacuation centres and flood markers with the public as a view-only link, with no account needed at the other end. When you update the map, everyone who reopens the link sees the change.
Waste and amenity
Illegal dumping, graffiti and litter become features on the map, logged where they happen by the compliance and waste teams that deal with them.
Community and cultural assets
Public art, memorials and heritage sites have stories as well as coordinates. Put the story in a description field and the type of site in a category field. Then share the map with the community as a view-only link.
Cemetery management
Plots and interment records have to be exactly right. Search for a name to find the plot on the map.
And the one-off maps
An event footprint or a temporary road closure is data too, published the same way, shared as a link, and taken down when the event is over.
Try it on your own data
See the Features page for everything Groundwork does, or the Administrator Guide to publish your first map.