Seeing your projects on a map
Projects can show a workspace as a table or as a map. The map puts every project that stores a location on a world map, beside a list of the same projects, so you can see where your sites are and open one from its pin.
Opening the map
- Go to Projects.
- Click Map in the switch above the list, to the right of the search box.
- The map frames the projects of the workspace you are in, and lists them down the left.
Click Table to go back. The view you pick is remembered in this browser and opens again next time, in every workspace.
Reading the pins
One pin stands for one project, at the coordinates that project stores.
Projects stored at the same coordinates share one pin carrying their number. Zooming in never pulls them apart. Click such a pin to list the projects it holds by name, then pick one. Clicking a spot where pins overlap on screen opens the same list.
Click a pin without a number to open the project's card: its asset type, name, creation date and who created it, with Details to open the project's panel and Open in 3D to open the model. Close the card with its ×, by pressing Esc, or by clicking the map away from any pin.
Come back to Projects from a model and the map is where you left it, with the same project selected, until you reload the page.
Moving around the map
Drag to pan and scroll to zoom, or use the buttons in the bottom-right corner of the map. Each carries an icon, and its name shows when you point at it.
| Button | What it does |
| Map | A charcoal map with roads, water and place names |
| Satellite | Aerial imagery with place names over it |
| Zoom in, Zoom out | Change the zoom one step |
| Fit all projects | Frame every pin currently shown |
The map always faces north and cannot be turned or tilted. Zoomed far enough out it becomes a globe.
Typing in the search box reframes the map on the projects that are left, as long as you have not moved the map yourself. Panning, zooming, clicking a row in the list and Show on map all move it, and the map then stays where you put it until you click Fit all projects or switch workspace. Switching workspace frames the new workspace's projects.
Finding a project from the list
The list beside the map holds the same projects as the table, in the same order, and the search box works on both views: a filter typed in one holds in the other.
- Point at a row and its pin grows on the map. Point at a pin without a number and its row lights up in the list.
- Click a row to move the map to that project's pin and open its card.
- Click a pin to scroll its row into view in the list.
- The foot of the list counts the rows it is showing against every project in the workspace.
In the table, each row ends with icon buttons whose names show when you point at them. Click Show on map to switch to the map with that project selected.
Why is a project not on the map?
A project is drawn once it stores a latitude and a longitude that describe a real place. Until then it is counted under No location.
Two buttons sit above the list whenever at least one project has no location: On map, with the number the map can place, and No location, with the number it cannot. The map opens on On map, or on No location when the map can place none of them. If a search or a workspace switch leaves nothing under the one you are on, the list moves to the other one by itself.
Click No location to list the rest. The map dims, its pins and the buttons in its corner go, and it reads "These projects have no location, so they aren't on the map." Click On map to bring them back. Select one of the projects without a location and a card names it and gives the reason.
| What the card says | What it means |
| This project has no location yet. | The project stores no coordinates. |
| The location stored for this project is not valid. | What it stores is not a place: a latitude without a longitude, a coordinate out of range, or zero for both. |
When every project in the list has a location, the two buttons are not there at all.
Show on map in the table works for a project without a location too. The map selects it and gives the same reason.
Giving a project a location
- Select the project under No location, then click Set location. The project's panel opens on its Location tab.
- Fill in Latitude and Longitude. Each is saved as you leave the field, and the two are saved together: until both are filled in, "Enter both a latitude and a longitude." shows under the empty one and nothing is stored.
- The project leaves the No location list. Click On map to see its pin. If that was the last project without a location, the two buttons go, and the map moves to the pin and opens its card.
Set location shows for a workspace Creator or Admin, and for an organisation admin. Anyone who can edit a project can set its coordinates from the panel's Location tab: click Table, click the project's row, then open Location. The fields on that tab are greyed if you cannot edit the project, so ask a workspace administrator. See Troubleshooting project permissions.
Projects uploaded from a georeferenced 3D model usually arrive with a location already set.
Troubleshooting
| What you see | What it means |
| The map reads "None of these projects has a location yet." | You are on On map, and nothing in the current list can be placed. Click Show projects without a location to list them. |
| A project you expected is missing from the map | It has no location, or what it stores is not valid. Click No location above the list to find it. |
| The list is shorter than the table | The map opens on On map. The rest are counted under No location. |
| The map says it could not be loaded | Check your connection, and allow maps from mapbox.com if a browser extension blocks them. |
| The map says WebGL is not available | Your browser cannot draw a map. Click Table to work from the list. See Troubleshooting a project that will not open in 3D. |
| "No projects match your filter." | The search matched nothing in this workspace. Clear the search box. |
| The open card disappeared after switching workspace | The map frames the new workspace's projects and starts with nothing selected. |