Map can be viewed at : https://www.dudemap.com/sharemap/c298fd94-6978-4936-97a1-e093cfb56915
Platform credits: https://www.dudemap.com
Data Credits: https://www.usgs.gov/about/about-us/who-we-are
I built a cloud-sharing feature for DudeMap so you can finally send map links instead of raw data files.
It generates a synced URL while keeping your data local—check out this live example: https://www.dudemap.com/sharemap/5bc93ce6-ed3f-448d-be0f-9b3ee56d3639
Try it at https://www.dudemap.com
Curious to hear what you think of the workflow! :)
Hey everyone,
We’ve been hard at work on DudeMap, and we’re excited to share a major new feature based on your requests: Shareable Map Links.
Up until now, DudeMap was primarily for local visualization. With this latest update, we are making it easier for you to show your work to colleagues, clients, or the community without them needing to handle raw data files themselves.
When you have your layers styled and ready, simply click the "Share Map" button. DudeMap will instantly generate a unique, public URL. Anyone with this link can view your map exactly as you’ve configured it, from anywhere in the world.
Check out a live map here: https://www.dudemap.com/sharemap/5bc93ce6-ed3f-448d-be0f-9b3ee56d3639
Every time you hit share or make updates to your shared session, the map state syncs with our cloud. This ensures that the person on the other end of the link is always seeing the most up-to-date version of your visualization.
We know how important data sovereignty is in the GIS world. We’ve designed this feature to maintain our "Privacy-First" commitment:
Local Processing: Your original raw data files still stay on your system and are never fully uploaded to our servers.
Tile Syncing: When you share a map, we only sync the rendered tiles and session configuration necessary to display the map in a browser. Your source datasets remain under your control.
DudeMap is a passion project for our team, and we’re running this on shared infrastructure to keep it completely free for the community. We want to keep the service fast and accessible for everyone, so we appreciate you using the sharing feature mindfully as we scale.
Our goal is to keep DudeMap as the fastest way to view, debug, and now distribute geospatial insights without the overhead of heavy desktop software.
Try it out here: https://www.dudemap.com
We’d love to hear your thoughts on the sharing workflow. What else would make your collaboration easier?
— The DudeMap Team
Hey everyone,
A while back I shared DudeMap — a lightweight tool for quickly visualizing geospatial data without opening heavy desktop tools.
I’ve pushed a new update based on feedback from here.
You can now directly upload and visualize:
One thing I wanted to get right from the start:
So if you're working with sensitive GIS datasets, you can safely inspect them without worrying about external storage or usage.
Make it easy to:
Quickly view, debug, and share geospatial data
without needing tools like QGIS for simple tasks
Try it here: https://www.dudemap.com
Would genuinely appreciate feedback from the community:
Thanks again for all the inputs so far!