Tour the interface

Find your way around Felt's toolbar, legend, table, and workspace home page. Learn how to switch between view mode and edit mode.

You work in two places in Felt: a map, where you add, style, and share data, and the workspace home page, where you find and organize maps. Maps open in view mode. To change a map, click Edit map in the toolbar at the top right of the map, or press Shift+E.

View mode and edit mode

Use view mode to explore a Felt map and edit mode to change it.

• Enter edit mode: click Edit map at the right end of the toolbar, or press Shift+E. With Contribute access, the button is Contribute, and you can add and edit features and draw annotations.

• Leave edit mode: click Done. Felt saves your edits as you make them.

If you see neither Edit map nor Contribute, you have View access to the map. Ask someone with Edit access to give you Contribute or Edit access. See Permissions.

Parts of a map

A Felt map has five main parts: the toolbar, the legend, the detail panel, the table, and the map itself.

Toolbar

The Felt toolbar runs along the top of the map.

• At the top left is the Felt menu, under the Felt logo. It holds file, edit, view, and help commands, such as export, print, and Help and account. Next to it is the map's name. To rename the map in edit mode, click the name and enter a new one.

• In the center, in edit mode, are the tools for building the map, such as Add to map, Data sources, Upload Anything, Analysis, and Dashboards.

• At the top right are the people on the map with you, the basemap menu, Open table, Search, Comment, Felt AI, Share, and Edit map.

Legend

The legend in Felt is the left panel of a map. The Legend tab shows layers as they appear to people viewing the map. In edit mode, the List tab shows everything on the map, including layers, annotations, and components. Use it to select, reorder, and edit them. See Legend.

Detail panel

The detail panel opens on the right when you select a layer or annotation. Use it to view and change the selection's settings. For a layer, the detail panel has Style, Filter, Components, and Data tabs. See Style vector layers.

Table

The table in Felt shows a vector layer's data as rows and columns at the bottom of the map. To open it, click Open table in the toolbar or press T. See Table.

Map

The map is the area in the middle of the screen. Your layers and annotations appear here on a basemap: the background map beneath your data. See Navigate the map and Keyboard shortcuts.

Tools

Use the tools in the Felt toolbar to build your map. The tools appear in edit mode when you have Contribute or Edit access to the map. Some need a paid plan. See Compare plans.

Tool	What it does	Plan
Add to map	Draws annotations, such as pins, lines, and shapes. See Draw on the map.	Free
Add to map, then a layer in its menu	Adds features to a layer. See Edit features.	Team and up
Data sources	Adds layers from your workspace's sources and the Global Library. See Data sources.	Free
Upload Anything	Uploads files, adds data from a URL or QGIS, or adds a source. See Upload files.	Team and up
Analysis	Runs spatial analysis operations, such as buffer and join. See Spatial analysis.	Team and up
Dashboards	Adds charts, statistics, and filters. See Dashboards.	Business and up
Developer Platform	Adds extensions that turn the map into a custom application. See Extensions.	Business and up
Map settings	Controls what people viewing the map can do. See Map settings.	Free

Workspace home

The workspace home page opens when you log in to felt.com. A workspace holds your team's maps, projects, and data sources. Each workspace has its own members, plan, and billing. See Workspaces.

The left sidebar has these sections:

• Maps: Recent maps, Drafts, Offline maps, and your projects. Drafts hold maps that aren't in a project yet. To create a map, click New map (+) next to Maps. See Organize maps.

• Data sources: Recent data, the Global Library, and your workspace's sources. See Data sources.

• The workspace menu: click your workspace name in the sidebar to switch workspaces, open Workspace settings or Account settings, invite members, or log out. See Account and login.