Groundwork
Your organisation’s map, kept up to date by the people who know the ground.
Out on the ground, rangers, planners and engineers see what the map doesn’t yet show. Groundwork makes each of them the custodian of that data. Publish the map straight from QGIS, and they keep it accurate from an app anyone can use.
The people who know the ground should be trusted with the record
Every organisation's map depends on knowledge held by the people in the field. Desktop GIS is too much to ask of busy field staff, so the map falls quietly behind what they know. Groundwork closes that gap.
From QGIS to the field
There is no server to stand up. Groundwork reads your team's QGIS project straight from a Dropbox or OneDrive folder, so your staff open the map they set up.
Configure in QGIS
Set up the project and choose the layers to open for editing. The more you set up in QGIS, the more Groundwork already knows.
Set it up and send a link
Open your data in Groundwork, set up what your team should see, then send them a link. You decide whether opening it needs a sign-in.
Custodians take it from there
The people you trust with each dataset click the link and start work, saving straight back to your folder.
Made for domain experts, not GIS technicians
A focused workflow
Groundwork opens on the data you look after, with every field of a feature on one panel and its actions in a row under the name.
Edits are saved straight to your live data
Save, and the change is in the Dropbox folder your team already shares. (OneDrive and SharePoint maps open read-only.)
Your data stays in formats you control
Groundwork speaks open standards, WFS and GeoJSON, and reads your QGIS projects directly.
Your folder already decides who gets in
A map opens for exactly the people who can open the folder behind it. No permissions to set up here, nothing to update when someone leaves.
See everything Groundwork can do → · Where your data is stored →
Every dataset deserves a custodian, and yours already work here
A custodian is simply the person who knows a dataset best and is trusted to keep it right. If you look after the trees, the tree register should be yours to update, and in Groundwork it is.
Asset & infrastructure defects
Engineers and maintenance crews log footpath trip hazards, damaged signs, drainage pits and playground equipment.
Parks, trees & open space
Tree registers, new plantings, removals and reserve condition, kept current by arborists and parks officers.
Environmental monitoring
Environmental officers and scientists map weed and pest infestations, revegetation sites and watercourse health.
Planning & development
Development-application sites, heritage and zoning notes, recorded on the ground by planners.
Public health & compliance
Environmental health and local-laws officers capture food-premises and pool-barrier checks, septic systems and abandoned vehicles.
Emergency management
Flood markers, fire-hazard sites, sandbag points and evacuation centres, maintained by emergency-management officers.
What it means for your organisation
More gets done
Field changes are captured as they happen. Nothing is queued behind the GIS team.
Less double-handling
Knowledge is captured once, at the source.
Staff learn it by using it
Groundwork does one job, so there is little to learn beyond the job itself.
Fewer specialist licences
Keep heavyweight GIS software for the specialists who actually need it.
Decisions run on current data
The map reflects what's true today.
Expertise, formally recognised
Give each dataset a named custodian and the map becomes authoritative, with staff taking visible ownership of the part they know best.
Simple plans
Teams
Per organisation, on enquiry
Maps only your own people should open, from the libraries and servers you run.
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