6.4. Main interface

6.4.1. Authorization

Open the Web GIS and press “Sign in” in the top right corner.

In the opened dialog press the blue button that reads Sign in with NextGIS ID.

You will be redirected to my.nextgis.com authorization page. Enter your username or email you used for registration and your password.

Pic. 6.4. Signing in with NextGIS

After the authorization is completed successfully you will be redirected back to the Web GIS.

6.4.2. Home page

After login the user is taken to the home page shown on Pic. 6.5.

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Pic. 6.5. Home page

The numbers indicate: 1 - Main menu; 2 - User settings (Exit and Change language); 3 - Resource search bar in Web GIS 4 – Main resource group description; 5 - Child resources; 6 - User permissions for main resource group; 7 - Types of items that could be added to the main resource group; 8 - Actions that could be performed with main resource group

Home page includes main menu pane, (see item 1 in Pic. 6.5.) which has the following links (see Pic. 6.6.):

Resources
Control Panel
Help
Account

Description pane (see item 4 in Pic. 6.5.) displays type of resource and owner as well as description (if available).

Child resources pane (see item 5 in Pic. 6.5.) contains a list of all resources placed in a main group. The table contains name and type of the resource and action buttons (edit, delete, for some types of resources - preview, open the attribute table).

“Create resoruce” button opens a pop-up window where you can choose the type of resource you want to create.

In current version it is possible to add the following types of data to the Main resource group:

Basemap
Collector project
Lookup table
OGC API - Features service
PostGIS connection
PostGIS layer
Raster layer
Resource group
TMS connection
TMS layer
Trackers group
Vector layer
Web Map
WFS service
WMS connection
WMS layer
WMS service

Depending on your NGW version you may also add:

SVG marker library
3D model
3D scene
3D tileset

Actions pane (see item 7 in Pic. 6.5.) contains tools for adding data and executing operations with the current resource. For the Main resource group the only available operation is Update (i.e. edit).

On the main page there is also a block of extra links:

Demo projects;
User permissions - show access rights for the logged in user. Learn more about user permissions;
JSON view.

6.4.3. Language change

Any authorized user can switch the interface language. To do this, in the upper right corner on the user icon, go to the “Settings” section (admin_select_lang_pic).

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Pic. 6.7. Go to Settings bar

The following languages are available for selection (admin_settings_lang_pic)

Default browser
Russian
English
Bulgarian
Chinese
Czech
French
German
Italian
Spanish
Portuguese

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Pic. 6.8. Selecting language

6.4.4. Resource search

For easy search for resources and navigation, there is a search bar in the top bar (admin_search_bar_pic). The search is carried out in the entire existing database, regardless of which directory the user is currently in.

Pic. 6.9. Finding Resources in Web GIS

6.4.5. Control panel

NextGIS Web Control panel is available through the main menu (see item 1 in Pic. 6.5.), where you need to select “Control panel” (see Pic. 6.6.). It is presented on Pic. 6.10..

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Pic. 6.10. Control panel

Control panel allows to execute the following actions:

For more information about creation of user groups and users and granting permissions see topic Administrative tasks.

6.4.6. Resource view

After login to administrative interface the user is taken to home page shown on Pic. 6.11..

Pic. 6.11. Resource groups

The resource list allows users to perform some actions by clicking icons next to the resource name:

open the resource edit page
delete resource

Other actions can be available depending on the resource type:

preview
open (for Web Maps)
open feature table (for vector layers)

To open the resource page click on the corresponding row of the table. The resource page contains properties, attributes, a link for external access and a list of child resources if there are any (see Pic. 6.12.).

Pic. 6.12. Vector layer parameters

Here you can also enter the resource edit mode.

6.4.7. Feature table

Some resources contain a set of features that can be viewed as a table. Press the “Table” icon opposite the resource name or select an action for a vector layer called “Table” in the features pane.

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Pic. 6.13. Opening feature table from the resource list

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Pic. 6.14. Opening feature table from the resource page

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Pic. 6.15. Opening feature table from the map

Authorized users can edit features from the feature table.

6.4.8. Data export

NextGIS Web allows you to export data in the following formats:

GeoJSON
CSV
CSV for Microsoft Excel
ESRI Shapefile
AutoCAD DXF
Mapinfo TAB
MapInfo MIF/MID
GeoPackage

While exporting to some formats additional files are created, for example CSVT (field description) and PRJ (projection description) for CSV, CPG (code page) for ESRI Shapefile.

To export data:

Open a Vector or PostGIS layer, the data of which you want to export;
Select the item: menuselection: Features -> Save As on the right pane;
Specify the format and encoding of the data and select fields to be exported;
If necessary, you can compress the result into a ZIP archive (for a number of formats this is the default setting);
Save the file to your device.

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Pic. 6.16. Selecting “Save as” action to export data

Pic. 6.17. Data export in various formats