Upload files

Add your data files, spreadsheets, and images to a Felt map. Upload several files at once, and replace a layer's data later.

Drag a Shapefile, GeoJSON, KML, CSV, Excel, GeoTIFF, or other file onto your map, or use Upload Anything in the center of the toolbar at the top of the map. Felt turns data files into layers you can style, filter, and analyze. Images and PDFs become annotations you can move and resize. Felt places spreadsheet rows using addresses, coordinates, or place names. See Spreadsheets and geocoding. For all supported formats, see Supported file types.

Upload a file

1. In the toolbar, click Upload Anything > Upload file.

2. Select one or more files on your computer and confirm. Data layers appear in the legend when processing finishes.

You can also press Cmd+U (Mac) or Ctrl+U (Windows) to go straight to choosing a file. Upload Anything also adds data from links, QGIS, and connected sources. See Add data from URLs, QGIS plugin, and Add a source.

Upload several files at once

Upload Anything accepts up to 25 files at a time, and browser uploads can be up to 100 GB each. See Data limits. Each data file becomes its own layer, with two exceptions:

• Files that belong together, such as a Shapefile's parts (.shp, .shx, .dbf, .prj) or an image and its world file, become one layer.

• A file with several datasets, such as a workbook with several tabs or a GeoPackage with several tables, becomes a layer group with one layer per dataset.

Felt reads files inside .zip, .7z, .rar, .tar, and .gz archives, so you don't need to unzip them. To upload a folder, such as a File Geodatabase (.gdb), compress it into a .zip file first.

What happens after you upload

Felt processes each data file, reprojects it for display, and adds a layer with the file's name and a default style. When a vector file has no projection, such as a Shapefile without its .prj file, Felt assumes latitude and longitude (EPSG:4326). Each upload counts toward the workspace's monthly processing. See Plan usage.

If an upload fails or the data lands in the wrong place, see Troubleshooting uploads.

Update an uploaded layer

Uploading a data file creates a new layer; it doesn't replace an existing layer or add data to it. To replace a layer's data and keep its styling, use Upload new version at the bottom of the layer's Data tab, or open the layer's ··· menu in the legend and click Actions > Upload new version. See Refresh data.

To stack features from two layers into one, ask Felt AI, because the Analysis tool can't append layers. See Combine layers.