Create your first map
Make your first Felt map in minutes: add data, style it, and share it, with Felt AI or on your own.
Build a map with Felt AI: ask it to add data, style the result, and explain its work. Each step shows what to ask and links to the manual steps when you'd rather do it yourself.
Step 1: Create a map
Create a map for Felt AI to work on. Felt saves your changes automatically.
Go to felt.com and log in. If you don't have an account, see Account and login.
Click New map (+) next to Maps in the sidebar, or New map on Recent maps, Drafts, or a project page. The new map opens.
Optional: Click the map's name at the top left and enter a new name.
You can also go to felt.com/map/new to create a map in one step.
Step 2: Add data
Ask Felt AI to add a county layer to your new map. A new map opens in edit mode, with Done at the top right, so you can change it right away.
If you see Edit map instead of Done, click Edit map to enter edit mode.
Click Felt AI in the toolbar at the top right of the map.
Enter "Add US county boundaries to this map. Explain what you do as you go" and press Enter.
Felt AI adds the counties as a layer in the legend. You can ask "What is a layer?" or "How do I see the data behind these counties?" to learn as you build. See AI assistant.
To use your own file, upload your data first; Felt AI can't accept files in chat. You can also add Global Library layers yourself.
Step 3: Style the data
Ask Felt AI to color the counties by population:
Color the counties by population and explain how the colors work.
Check the colors and values on the map. To refine the result, ask "Use a blue color palette" or "How do I change these colors myself?" For the manual steps, see Style data yourself.
Step 4: Share the map
Share your map with View, Contribute, or Edit access. People who only view and comment don't need a seat.
Click Share at the top right of the map.
Enter each person's email address and select their access level.
Click Invite. Each person gets an email with a link to the map.
Optional: To let anyone with the link view the map, set public link access to View, then click Copy link.
New maps start in your Drafts unless you create them inside a project. Click Share to check who can open the map. See Organize maps.
To show the map on a website, embed it. For more sharing options, see Share a map.
Add data yourself
Felt organizes map data into layers. On any plan, you can start with ready-made Global Library layers or draw on the map with pins, lines, and shapes.
Add Global Library layers
The Global Library has ready-made layers of boundaries, demographics, land cover, and imagery. Click Data sources in the toolbar, open Global Library, and select a layer. See Global Library.
Once a layer is on the map, double-click it in the legend to zoom to it, or click Open table to see its data. See Table.
Upload your own data
Upload a file to map your own data. Felt places the data on the map and converts addresses in spreadsheets to points.
In the toolbar, click Upload Anything.
Click Upload file and select the file. You can also drag the file onto the map. The layer appears in the legend when it's ready.
To add data from a link, such as a Google Sheet, click Upload Anything > From URL instead. See Upload files and Supported file types.
Style data yourself
Style a layer's colors, sizes, and labels in the Style tab of the detail panel.
Click the layer in the legend. If the layer is in a group, open the group and click the layer. The detail panel opens on the right with the Style tab selected.
In the General section, select a visualization type, such as Simple, Categories, or Color range. The other options depend on the visualization type.
Select the attribute to style by and adjust the colors.
Optional: In the Popup section, choose what people see when they click a feature.
See Style vector layers, Labels, and Popups.
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