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7 April 2026Do you use QGIS?
Build an enterprise solution with Usemaps
Usemaps is a cloud built around QGIS. You still perform analyses, manage layers, and write scripts in the environment you know. Usemaps ensures your work is no longer invisible to the rest of the company. Management sees the project portfolio on the map. The project manager tracks the status of plots. The lawyer retrieves documents linked to specific locations. No one asks you for the “latest file.”
Everyone works together on the same, up-to-date data.
In every organization that manages spatial data, there are at least three types of users. Until now, only one of them had access to the data.
analyst · data administrator · GIS specialist
Works in QGIS - exactly as before.
Creates layers, performs analyses, manages data. With UseMaps, their work automatically goes to the cloud - visible to the entire organization. No file exports, minimal changes to workflow.
Benefits:
- No more sending files and answering questions about the latest version
- Data in the cloud with backup and full version history
- Full control over who sees and edits what
- Their role in the organization grows – they become the administrator of the company’s spatial knowledge
project manager · inspector · technical department employee
Works with data - without needing to know QGIS.
They see up-to-date data on the map in a browser. They add tasks, notes, and documents linked to specific objects or locations. No QGIS is needed - just a browser and the proper permissions.
Benefits:
- Access to up-to-date data without asking a specialist
- Tasks and documents linked to locations – not in a separate system
- One view instead of Excel, email, and phone calls
- Field work through the mobile app – with data updated instantly
director · manager · department head
Sees what’s important - without the technical context.
Checks the status of projects, objects, and tasks on the map. Makes decisions based on current data - not a report prepared a week ago. No need to know what a shapefile is.
Benefits:
- A view of the entire organization in one place
- Decisions based on today’s data, not the last meeting
- Status reports without involving the team in preparation
- No entry barriers – just a browser, permissions, everything ready
QGIS is an expert tool. Usemaps is the environment for the whole company.
Usemaps is a cloud built around QGIS. You still perform analyses, manage layers, and write scripts in the environment you know. Usemaps ensures your work is no longer invisible to the rest of the company. Management sees the project portfolio on the map. The project manager tracks the status of plots. The lawyer retrieves documents linked to specific locations. No one asks you for the “latest file.”
You decide who sees what - down to the layer.
- Roles and permissions at the layer, project, and organization level
- External partners with limited access
- Full activity log - who viewed or changed what and when
- Sensitive data separated from public data
No installation. No “send me that file.” A browser is enough.
- Access from any device and operating system
- Mobile app for fieldwork - data synchronized instantly
- Share a view with a single link - no account or installation needed on the other side
- Data always up-to-date - refresh the page, and you see the latest version
A PDF with a map is just a snapshot. Usemaps is a live view of the data.
- Interactive maps accessible via a link - no download or file opening required
- Clicking on an object displays its attributes, tasks, and documents
- The map always reflects the current state of the data - not the state from the export date
- The map can be embedded on a website or in a report
We have answers to every question
I will have to abandon QGIS and learn a new tool.
QGIS and Usemaps are not two competing tools – they are two different layers of working with data. QGIS is your analytical environment. Usemaps is the cloud where that data lives and is accessible to the entire organization.
You install the plugin, connect to Usemaps, and work exactly as before. There is only one difference: your PM no longer messages you at 5:00 PM asking, “can you send me the latest project map”
I will lose control over the data - everyone will be able to edit everything.
It is quite the opposite. Today, data lives in files shared via email – and you really have no control over who has which version or what they do with it. In Usemaps, you as the administrator decide who can view, who can edit, and who can only download.
Management sees the map. The PM adds tasks. The lawyer downloads documents. No one touches your layers without your permission. And every change has a history – you know who modified what and when.
QGIS is free. Why pay for Usemaps?
QGIS is free and will remain free – no one is changing that. But QGIS does not provide a cloud, access management for teams, change history, or a dashboard for management. It is a tool for a single user on one computer.
You don’t pay for GIS in Usemaps – you pay so that the entire team can use your work. Companies pay for Office 365 because collaboration and the cloud provide value that desktop tools alone cannot offer.