1. Get Started with your Web GIS

Contents:

• 1.1. Intro
• 1.2. Web GIS: Description and Main Features
• 1.3. How to create account (NextGIS ID) and Web GIS
  • 1.3.1. How to create account (NextGIS ID)
  • 1.3.2. How to create Web GIS
• 1.4. Which data formats and protocols are supported in Web GIS
• 1.5. How data is managed
• 1.6. How to upload data
  • 1.6.1. Raster data
  • 1.6.2. Vector data
• 1.7. How to connect data from external sources
  • 1.7.1. Basemaps
  • 1.7.2. External PostGIS databases
  • 1.7.3. External WMS services
• 1.8. How to create map styles for data visualization
  • 1.8.1. MapServer style
  • 1.8.2. QGIS style
  • 1.8.3. Raster style
• 1.9. How to create web map
  • 1.9.1. Create Web map
  • 1.9.2. Open Web map
• 1.10. Web map annotations
  • 1.10.1. Annotation. What is it?
  • 1.10.2. How to plug in Web map annotations?
  • 1.10.3. Web map: a panel for work with annotations
  • 1.10.4. Web map: annotation editting
  • 1.10.5. Web map: user’s permissions associated with annotations
• 1.11. How to print a Web map
• 1.12. How to publish data using standard protocols
  • 1.12.1. WMS service
  • 1.12.2. WFS service
• 1.13. How to manage data storage
• 1.14. How to transfer resources inside Web GIS
• 1.15. How to add descriptions and metadata for resources
• 1.16. How to edit data
  • 1.16.1. Edit a feature on a Web map
  • 1.16.2. Setting of permission for editing
  • 1.16.3. Edit feature’s attributes
• 1.17. How to export data
  • 1.17.1. Custom coordinate systems
• 1.18. How to delete data
• 1.19. How to manage data with desktop app NextGIS QGIS
  • 1.19.1. Establishing Web GIS connection
  • 1.19.2. Creating and uploading data
  • 1.19.3. Creating WFS services
  • 1.19.4. Editing data
  • 1.19.5. Exporting data
  • 1.19.6. Creating Resource groups
  • 1.19.7. Deleting resources
• 1.20. How to begin data collection in your Web GIS
  • 1.20.1. Introduction
  • 1.20.2. Principles of work with NextGIS Collector
  • 1.20.3. Organizer of data collection: adding of team participants in Web GIS
  • 1.20.4. Organizer of data collection: creation of a data collection project
  • 1.20.5. Team participants: mobile app installation and start of data collection
• 1.21. How to use Web GIS for creation of end-user apps
• 1.22. How to switch on CORS for your Web GIS
• 1.23. How to change the homepage address
• 1.24. How to change the look of your Web GIS
  • 1.24.1. Custom CSS examples
• 1.25. How to get help or send a bug report