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Sharing

Exporting

Publish › Output › Export Map writes the map view as a PNG at any DPI, with labels, the scale bar and tile credits (share.exportMap on the command line); Print Map sends it through the system's PDF viewer, Capture To Clipboard copies it, and Export To 3D writes a layer as a Wavefront OBJ model with polygons extruded by a field. Data › Export (or the Export Features tool) writes a layer to GeoJSON, CSV, GeoPackage, GeoParquet, Shapefile, FlatGeobuf, KML, KMZ or GPX (see Writing), Data › Export a raster to GeoTIFF, and Data Interop converts layers to KML, GPX or CSV with WKT. Layouts, reports and presentations export to PDF from their own tabs and panes (see Layouts and Reports).

Packages and project item files are described under Project items.

Sharing as open formats

Publish › Share As writes open-format files that work without a server, to a chosen file or the first data store (a folder added with Add Data Store… in the Shared Items pane):

  • Web Map: a self-contained HTML page with the map's layers (rasters as images), pan and zoom, a layer list and pop-ups.
  • Web Layer: the selected layer as a static OGC API – Features collection, with its style and a viewer page, in a zip. Geodata Service does the same for every layer and table.
  • Web Style: the selected layer's symbology as a MapLibre style (unique values and classes as expressions).
  • Locator: the selected layer's names as a place-search file; locator.find searches it and can zoom to the best match.
  • Web Tool: the last model as a tool file, which model.import adds to another project.
  • Web Scene: the map in 3D as glTF, polygons extruded by their layer's extrusion setting, with a camera that looks at the map's centre from its bearing and pitch.
  • Web Link Chart: the features joined by the map's relationships, as a node-link page.

Publish › Share As › Jobs (the Shared Items pane) lists every share; Save Web Map, Replace Web Layer, Save Web Scene and Save Web Link Chart update a share in place, and Upload File copies a file into a data store.