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Exporting

Publish › Output › Export Map writes the map view as a PNG with labels, the scale bar and tile credits. The ribbon exports at 192 DPI; share.exportMap accepts width and height in pixels and a dpi value (96 by default). Print Map opens a PDF in the system viewer on desktop; Capture To Clipboard copies a map image. Export To 3D writes a layer as a Wavefront OBJ model with polygons extruded by a field.

Data › Export (or share.exportLayer, Export Features) writes a layer to GeoJSON, CSV, GeoPackage, GeoParquet, Shapefile (including a zip), FlatGeobuf, KML, KMZ or GPX (see Writing). GeoPackage, Shapefile and FlatGeobuf use the layer's source coordinate system by default; the crs parameter chooses another. A streamed layer exports its whole source, not just the features loaded for the view. share.exportTable exports a standalone table. Data › Export also writes rasters to GeoTIFF, and Data Interop converts layers to KML, GPX or CSV with WKT. Layouts, reports and presentations export 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 to a chosen file on desktop, or downloads them in the browser. The Share As commands accept a path; without one they use the first data store (a folder added with Add Data Store… in the Shared Items pane).

  • Web Map (share.webMap): an HTML page of visible layers (rasters as embedded images), pan and zoom, a layer list and pop-ups. It uses a flat Mercator view, not the project's projection, and does not include the basemap's web tiles.
  • Web Layer (share.webLayer): the selected layer as a static OGC API – Features collection, with its style and a viewer page, in a zip. Geodata Service (share.geodataService) writes the map's non-raster, non-graphics layers and the project's standalone tables as collections. These are files, not running services with query or editing endpoints.
  • Web Style (share.webStyle): the selected layer's symbology as a MapLibre style (unique values and classes as expressions). Labels use only the Default label class, without its SQL clause; a hidden Default class exports no labels. The same limit applies to a Web Layer's style.
  • Locator (share.locator): the selected layer's names as a .rgisloc place-search file; text fields are searched by default, or specify fields. locator.find searches it and can zoom to the best match with "zoom": true.
  • Web Tool (share.webTool): the last model as a .rgistool file, which model.import adds to another project; model chooses a model by name.
  • Web Scene (share.webScene): the visible vector layers 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 (share.linkChart): the features joined by the map's relationships as a node-link HTML page; relationship limits it to one relationship.

Publish › Share As › Jobs (the Shared Items pane) lists desktop shares; Save Web Map, Replace Web Layer, Save Web Scene and Save Web Link Chart update a share in place (share.saveWebMap, share.replaceWebLayer, share.saveWebScene, share.saveWebLinkChart). The item parameter chooses the share by ID or name; omitting it uses the latest of that kind. Upload File (share.upload) copies a file into a data store; it does not upload to a remote server.

After opening a project, register its data stores again before writing to them, and use Share As to choose each item's destination again before updating it. Saved share records do not grant permission to overwrite their paths. Undo changes the project record, not files already written.