Save and export your work#

There are two different things you might want to keep: the work, or the picture. Save a project to keep the work, so you can come back to it. Export to produce a file for something else to read, whether that is another mapping tool or a report.

Everything here lives in the command palette, under Project. Open the palette with Ctrl+K, or Cmd+K on macOS.

Save and open a project#

Save project writes the whole session to a single file, with a .gdp.json extension. The file holds the map view and basemap, every layer with its styling and labelling, the timeline configuration, and any filters you applied. Open project reads one back.

Warning Opening a project replaces everything currently in the workspace. Save first if the current session matters.

Export the active layer#

Two commands export the active layer, so select the layer you want in the Layers panel first. If no layer is active, a notification tells you to select one.

Export layer as GeoJSON writes the features out with their geometry and properties intact. It exports what you can see, not what you imported: it applies both the property filters and the timeline. That is usually what you want, because it lets you use the filters as the selection mechanism. It also means a narrow timeline window produces a small file, so check the playhead if the result is thinner than you expected.

Export layer as CSV writes one row per feature with all the property columns, and appends _longitude and _latitude. Points give their own coordinates. Other geometry gives its centroid. A shape flattened to a single point loses its outline, so use GeoJSON where the geometry matters.

Export a PNG or PDF#

Export map as PNG captures the map exactly as it appears, with the legend composited into the bottom left corner.

Export map as PDF places the same image on an A4 page. It chooses portrait or landscape from the shape of the map, and adds a title, a timestamp, and the legend below the map. Use PDF when the output goes into a report, and PNG when it goes into something else.

Both commands work from the current view, so frame the map the way you want it before you run one.

Export one measurement#

Measurements have their own export in the inspector, which offers GeoJSON, KML, or CSV for that one measurement. Right-click a measurement on the map for Copy as GeoJSON, which puts it straight on the clipboard. See Measuring.