What Is Topologis?
Topologis is a cloud GIS for turning geodata into maps that are ready to share with clients, stakeholders, and the public.
It combines data import, styling, filters, tooltips, views, sharing, and embedding in one workflow. The product is designed so you can prepare a map once, then publish it as a link or embed without building a separate map application.
Who it is for
Topologis is a good fit for teams that need to publish maps, not just analyze data internally.
That usually includes:
- Consultants delivering project maps to clients
- In-house teams sharing operational or reporting maps with colleagues
- Organizations publishing map views on a website
- Teams that want viewers to open maps without creating a Topologis account
If the main goal is to get a polished map in front of an audience quickly, Topologis is built for that workflow.
What you can build
With Topologis, you can build map projects that combine imported datasets, visual styling, tooltip formatting, viewer-facing filters, and curated views.
Typical outputs include:
- A shareable map link for clients or stakeholders
- An embedded map for a website
- Different views of the same project for different audiences
- Maps that stay current through scheduled refreshes from a URL or Google Sheets
The product supports imports from GeoJSON, CSV, Shapefile, GeoPackage, hosted URLs, and Google Sheets. Depending on the dataset, layers can be shown as standard map layers, heatmaps, point clusters, or hexbin maps.
How Topologis works
Topologis separates map editing from map delivery.
You start by creating a project inside a workspace and importing one or more datasets as layers. From there, you can choose a render mode, apply styles, configure filters, and make tooltip content easier to read.
Once the project is ready, you create one or more views. A view controls how the project is presented to the audience, including which layers are enabled, which filters are enabled, camera settings, map theme, aspect ratio, and embed behavior.
This means one project can act as the source of truth while multiple views present that same project in different ways.
Core concepts
Topologis is built around a few core concepts:
- Workspace: a shared space that contains projects
- Project: the main editing container for layers, tooltip settings, styles, and views
- Layer: one imported dataset inside a project
- Style: reusable visual settings that can be assigned to layers
- Filter: logic that narrows the visible features in a layer
- View: a presentation layer for a project with its own enabled layers, enabled filters, camera, map style, aspect ratio, sharing, and embedding settings
Layers also support time-series settings, so a project can include data with a temporal dimension when needed.
How sharing works
Sharing in Topologis happens from views, not from raw layers.
When a view is ready, you can publish it as a direct link or embed it in another site with a JavaScript snippet. Viewers do not need a Topologis account to open a shared view.
Views can also be protected with a PIN. For embeds, you can restrict where the embed runs by allowing only approved hosts.
This keeps the editing model clean: the project holds the source content, and the view defines what the audience sees.
How Topologis is different
Topologis is oriented around delivering a usable map experience, not around recreating the full workflow of a desktop GIS or requiring a custom web mapping build.
It sits between those two approaches:
- More structured than exporting static map outputs by hand
- Faster to publish than building a custom map interface from scratch
- Focused on presentation features like filters, tooltips, views, sharing, and embedding
If you need a workflow for preparing geodata and publishing it as a map that people can actually use, that is the job Topologis is built to do.