User Guide

The User Guide covers every catalog-side workflow in GeoLens: searching for datasets, browsing dataset detail pages, composing maps, running analysis on the layers in them, organizing collections, importing data, understanding where each source mode keeps its bytes, hosting 3D Tiles and point clouds, exporting to portable formats, and taking your data with you.

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Search & Discovery Find datasets fast with filters, faceted search, semantic search, and saved searches.

Dataset Detail Browse a dataset's overview, data, metadata, structure, sources, and access tabs, and export from the Access tab.

Map Builder Compose maps from datasets: add layers, style features, filter on-the-fly, and share with a link or embed.

Analysis Buffer, centroid, clip, dissolve, spatial join, measure, select by location, and intersect the vector layers in a map, then save the result as a new dataset.

Collections Group datasets into named collections; manage membership and browse collection-scoped catalogs.

Importing Data Upload files, register in-place PostGIS tables, copy feature-service layers, reference STAC assets, and create empty layers.

Where Your Data Lives Compare managed copies, in-place PostGIS tables, Service snapshots, and live STAC references, including what refresh does for each.

3D Tiles and Point Clouds Upload 3D Tiles tilesets and COPC point clouds, and open them from CesiumJS, QGIS, Potree or copc.js with an API key.

Exports & Integrations Export formats (GeoPackage, GeoJSON, Shapefile, CSV, GeoParquet, FlatGeobuf, PMTiles), OGC API access, STAC, and machine-client examples.

Taking Your Data With You Get every dataset, map and object out of GeoLens with database dumps, open export formats, OGC API and STAC, and object storage.

Account Settings Your role, file-storage and dataset usage meters, UI language, and self-service API keys.