Projects where places change often, the client’s own team edits them, and one or more apps show them on a map are a good fit. In-house teams use it the same way. Here are the projects people build with it.
It is a good fit when most of these are true:
Points, routes or areas on a map, each with its own text, photos, files and fields, like a store with opening hours or a trail with its difficulty.
You build the map feature, and the client’s marketing, operations or content people keep it current in a simple editor, without calling you or a GIS specialist to change a pin. In-house teams work the same way.
Like the pages on your website, your places get new photos, new descriptions and new details, and the map should update without a release.
A website map, a mobile app, a kiosk or QGIS reads it through an API, GeoJSON or vector tiles, and you’d rather not build a backend for it.
Retail chains, franchises, dealer networks, clinics, charging stations.
Destination marketing teams, parks, cycling and hiking portals, ski resorts.
Festivals, city event calendars, conferences, races.
Developers, agencies, regeneration projects.
Delivery and utility companies, insurers, sales teams.
Universities, hospitals, airports, resorts, business parks.
Municipalities, transport and park authorities.
Project sites, monitoring locations, story maps, data journalism.
The client’s staff keep places, photos and opening hours up to date without touching code, and every change stays a draft until they publish it.
One cacheable API for JSON, GeoJSON and vector tiles: you or your coding agent connect the app once, with no backend to build or run.
They set up the project, answer “which stores are closed on Sunday?” or prepare drafts in bulk. Publishing stays with people unless you allow it.
It manages map content. Reach for something else when the job is one of these:
Making the map itself – It doesn’t give you a finished map. It manages and delivers the places on it; your app draws the map with MapLibre, Mapbox GL, Leaflet or QGIS, on a basemap from a provider you choose.
Live tracking – Vehicles or devices reporting their position every few seconds need a streaming or telematics platform.
Spatial analysis – Buffers, overlays, routing, raster and satellite imagery belong in a GIS such as QGIS or ArcGIS, which can read your data.
Fully offline field work – You can add entries on a phone in the browser, and the one you’re editing stays on the device through a dropout. Surveys that spend hours without signal, with whole projects downloaded to the device first, need a dedicated offline field app. See what Collect does in the field
Projects built for a client or in-house, where the content is places (points, routes or areas with text, photos and fields), non-technical editors keep it up to date, it changes often, and one or more apps show it on a map through an API, GeoJSON or vector tiles. Store finders, trail and tourism maps, event maps, service areas, campus maps and city maps are typical.
No. It is where your team keeps and publishes what goes on the map: the places, their fields, photos and files. It doesn’t draw or host a map for your visitors. Your app does that: it loads the published content as GeoJSON or vector tiles and draws it with a map library such as MapLibre, Mapbox GL or Leaflet, or in QGIS, on a basemap from a provider you choose. Editors see a map inside the editor while they work, but that is the editing view, not something you publish.
Yes. Choose New project, then File to pick a CSV or Excel file, or Online source to paste the link of a Google Sheet. It creates the type and its fields from the columns, places entries from latitude and longitude or from addresses, and updates the same entries when you import again.
The client’s editors run the content on their own. Someone connects the app once: you or a coding agent using the Content Delivery API or vector tiles, or any map tool that loads a GeoJSON URL.
Yes. The same published content is served as JSON, GeoJSON and vector tiles, so a website, a mobile app, a kiosk and QGIS can all read one project.
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