What is Felt?

Felt is the first modern mapping platform that's intuitive for everyone. It delivers blazingly fast visualizations and makes coordination seamless. Let's take a closer look at why you should be using Felt.

With Felt you can quickly view and validate spatial data. It supports a plethora of vector, raster, and spreadsheet formats which you can import via the simple drag and drop of a file, or the copy and paste of a URL. You can even send data layers from QGIS directly to Felt via the “Add to Felt” plug-in for QGIS.

Use the style editor to quickly create heat, categorical, color, or size range maps in just a few clicks. Easily fine-tune the look of points, lines, and polygons to your heart's desire, and adjust label and popup appearance in no time. You can also seamlessly visualize, highlight, and perform advanced analysis on raster data.

Felt is intuitive for you and your clients to adopt. In fact, one of the areas where Felt shines is with annotating maps. Highlight areas of interest with dynamic drawing and annotation tools, add notes, draw routes between points, or extract buildings and admin boundaries directly from the base map. You can even embed playable YouTube videos or link out to web pages. Quickly add context to your visualizations via data sets from our built-in layer library.

Felt enables you to go deep with your data, to filter, to search, and to view more of it on the fly and find answers as fast as possible. Perform powerful spatial analysis on your data with our transformation tools, including buffer, clip, dissolve, and more. Now whether you want feedback from a client or you're collaborating with colleagues in the field, Felt has everything you need.

Coordinate on key decisions with comments and share and collaborate on a map with powerful member permission controls. When working with a team, you can organize your maps into projects and your projects into workspaces. Felt fits into any workflow. You can use it in conjunction with your current GIS tools or as a powerful standalone application. Developers can work with maps programmatically and perform advanced integrations via the felt API.

Felt makes map making online accessible, powerful, and collaborative. So whether you're creating a beautiful visualization to share with your team or simply reviewing the accuracy of a data set, Felt is a lightning fast solution for your needs. Data loads quickly and our cartographic defaults ensure every map you make is effortlessly professional in appearance. It truly is the best way to work with maps on the internet — sign up now!

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