Sharing a map

Share maps with custom permission settings and public or private access.

Share menu

Looking to manage share and control permissions for your entire org? See Managing members

To share your map, click on the Share button on the top-right corner of your map.

From this menu you can:

• invite collaborators directly via email,

• control public access to the map, or

• (draft maps only) adjust the access level for all workspace members.

Sharing across the workspace

To share maps between teammates, move maps into Projects in the workspace. Projects control which teammates have access to which maps, and Projects can be set to public (to everyone in the workspace) or private. See Workspaces and projects for more information.

Members in the same workspace can access maps in public projects and maps in private projects they're invited to.

Project Admin can set the default permission for all members with access to the project. The default permission for each project can be set as: View, Contribute, and Edit.

This default permission will override the member's permission if the default permission grants a lower access level than a member's workspace permission.

For example, if a public project's setting is set to view, every member's permission will be view in that project:

• Any editor will see the project maps as a viewer.

• Any contributor will see the project maps as a viewer.

• Any viewer will see the project maps as a viewer.

See Workspace permissions for more info.

Invite collaborators by email

You can also invite external collaborators or existing workspace members to specific projects and maps. External collaborators can only see maps they’ve been invited to.

Control public access

There are several public access options. These options apply to anyone who is not directly invited to the map, to workspace members with no workspace-level permission for maps in public projects, and to all workspace members for maps in private projects:

Setting	Description
None	Only members directly invited to the map or who have access via the workspace can view the map. The most secure setting.
View	Anyone with the link can view.
View and comment	Anyone with the link can view and place location-based comments.
View, comment, and edit	Anyone with the link can view and comment on the map. Anyone with a Felt account can also edit the map.

Setting your map view

You can set a default view that Workspace members land on when opening the map. This ensures the map opens to a certain location and zoom level by default:

Felt Menu (top-left) → View → Set current view as default

When copying a map link through the Share menu using the Copy link button (bottom-right corner), the link automatically includes some URL parameters that point to your current view. Take the following URL:

https://felt.com/map/Kontur-Population-yiQAmRZ9CTTK49CHfYp9AauvC?loc=32.55,23.37,3.26z

The loc parameter specifies the center coordinates of the center of the view and thez parameter at the end of the URL indicates the level of zoom.

Using these parameters, you can share specific views of your map with people, or even embed different views of a same map on your website.

Troubleshooting

If you or someone you share the map with sees a "This browser or computer isn't supported" error message when opening a map:

This is due to either:

1. WebGL not being enabled on the browser (most common)

2. The device or browser not supporting WebGL

To verify and fix:

1. Go to https://get.webgl.org/ to verify WebGL is enabled. If enabled, you should see a spinning cube on this page:

1. Confirm graphics/hardware acceleration is enabled for your browser. Search “Enable WebGL in [browser + version]” to find the location of the setting.

   1. Chrome: available in chrome://settings/system

      
   2. Firefox: available in performance settings: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/performance-settings.