Opening a project in QGIS

You sign in in QGIS with the same account and an emailed code, as in the app. The plugin lists the cloud projects you can work in, and Download puts a copy on your computer and opens it in QGIS: every layer, styled, to look at, measure, print or combine with your own data. Download again fetches the crew’s latest work whenever you want it.

The copy is read only. QGIS cannot send anything back to Mapit GIS Cloud: a change there stays in that copy and reaches nobody.

Anybody in the organisation who can open a cloud project’s data: the admin, managers and contributors. A viewer sees a shared project’s outline only and cannot download it; to put data in front of a viewer or a client in QGIS, publish a WFS and share it with them, or give them an access token. Publishing a WFS.

Each person has one QGIS place in each organisation, beside their app places, so a computer never takes a phone’s place. Signing in on a second computer is refused, naming the computer that holds the place. Signing out frees it, and the admin or a manager can free it from the roster.