GeoVivé is a map for exploring places and keeping your own collections of them: the trailhead, the hidden campsite, the café worth the detour. Take the two-minute tour, or jump to the answers you need.
Get startedNo setup, no install. GeoVivé runs in your browser on a computer, tablet or phone.
Everything starts on the map. On a phone, the sidebar is a tray you open with the bar at the top.
Open Layers to lay more information over the map. Your choices are remembered on this device.
Show other maps beside your own, and turn on live public maps: USGS topo, relief and imagery, streams and lakes, BLM land ownership, National Forests, state and county lines. See where public land meets the trail you're planning.
Apps connected to GeoVivé can bring their own layers, like hunting units or service areas. Arrive from one and its layers appear under AppConnect, alongside your own maps, for that visit.
Public overlays come straight from each agency and cover the United States. Shapes are simplified for display, so check the official source for exact boundaries.
Browsing never needs an account. Sign in with Google or an email and password to start keeping your own maps.
Your maps aren't locked in. Open one of your maps to move places in and out.
A GeoJSON file (up to 50 MB), a GeoJSON link, or an ArcGIS layer from an agency, with an optional filter. Choose which fields become names and categories. Up to 20,000 places, with their source remembered.
GeoJSON for GIS and map apps, KML for Google Earth, GPX for GPS units and outdoor apps. Pins become waypoints, lines become tracks, at full detail.
That's the tour. Answers to everything else are just below.
Everything on the map is either a map or a layer. The difference is who owns it, not what shape it is.
| Map | Layer | |
|---|---|---|
| Where you find it | The map menu and My maps | The Layers panel |
| Whose data | Stored in GeoVivé and owned by someone: you, another person who made it public, or the GeoVivé library | Someone else's: a government agency, or an app connected to GeoVivé |
| Can you change it? | Yes, if it's yours | No, it's shown as its provider publishes it |
| What's in it | Pins, and shapes such as trails and areas | Areas, lines or points, such as hunt units, land ownership or an app's locations |
| Save a copy? | Yes: Save to my map copies a pin into your own map | No; turn it on whenever you want to see it |
Every pin is one of three kinds: a location (a place), an event (something that happened there) or an alert (something that happened that people should know about).
The details behind the tour. Tap a question to open it.
Open Features in the sidebar and click an item; the map flies to it. Filter by category with the legend, and switch maps under Map. GeoVivé opens with World Capitals from Natural Earth.
Type in Search public maps at the top of the Map panel. It looks through every public map's name, description and tags as you type; tap a #tag to narrow the results, and use the arrow keys and Enter on a keyboard. Opening a map adds it to the Map menu under Public maps, next to Your maps.
Top-left: find your location, the compass (turns with the map; click to reset north), the lock (keeps north up) and 3D terrain. Bottom-left: scale bars in miles and kilometers. Top-right (bottom-right on a phone): the map connection and zoom level.
No. The location button and Pin my location use your position only in your browser, after it asks you. It's saved only if you save a pin there.
Public overlays load straight from each agency and cover the United States. If an agency's server is slow or down, that layer stays blank while the rest of the map works. Land ownership has detail down to about zoom 14.
From an app or business connected to GeoVivé, shown when you arrive from that app or open a map it created, for that visit. They belong to the provider and show its credits. Shapes are simplified for display; check the provider's official sources for exact boundaries.
Click Sign in, then either Sign in with Google (your account is created the first time) or Create an account with email and password and type the code we email you. Forgot your password? Use the reset link on the sign-in page. Sessions last about a day.
Yes. One email address is one GeoVivé account: choosing Google with the same verified address opens the same maps. The very first time you may need to click Sign in with Google twice. If you started with Google, keep using Google.
Sign out, click Sign in and pick another account from Google's chooser. Signing out of GeoVivé doesn't sign you out of Google, so on a shared computer sign out of Google too.
Open one of your maps, click 📍 New, then click the spot (or use 📍 My location). Give it a name, a type (Location for a place; Event or Alert for something that happened, with when it happened) and notes, and Save. To change a pin, click it, then the pencil. Esc cancels adding a pin.
To draw a line or an area instead of a single point, click ✏️ Line or 🔷 Area, then click and drag on the map to trace it; release to finish and fill in the same name/type/notes form. Esc cancels a drawing in progress.
Yes. Click any pin on a map you don't own (a public map, or another map you've shown on top with Also show other maps) and choose Save to my map. Pick one of your maps, or name a new one, and a copy is added there with a note of where it came from. The copy is yours to edit; the original doesn't change.
Simple Markdown: **bold**, *italic*, - lists, headings and links. Emoji from the smiley button or your keyboard (Win+. on Windows, Ctrl+Cmd+Space on a Mac). Codes like U+1F3E0 show as the character. Each pin card copies the pin as Markdown or JSON.
Click the ✏️ next to your map in My maps. Give it a clear name, a description of what's on it and who it's for, and a few tags (like hiking, colorado, trailheads), then tick Public. Search matches all three, including partial words and small typos.
Open My data (also linked from My maps on the map). It lists every pin across your maps, and warns you if any are in a public map. You can:
Only what the approval screen lists, and only after you click Allow. An app can see maps it created for you, plus any maps you tick to share (it can read those but not change them). It never sees your email, password or other maps. To check or remove linked apps, open My data → Connected apps; removing an app stops its access immediately, and maps it created stay yours.
Editing appears only on maps you own, while you're signed in. Other people's public maps are view-only.
.geojson or .json, up to 50 MB.FeatureServer/0 or MapServer/2, with an optional filter like STATE = 'CO'.Under Options, pick the name and category fields and whether to add or replace. Imports run in the background, up to 20,000 features, and GeoVivé records where the data came from.
You can export public maps and your own maps, at full detail.
Public maps name their source; World Capitals comes from Natural Earth (public domain). AppConnect layers come from the connected app and show its credits. Your maps contain only what you add.
Yes, with AppConnect. You keep your data; GeoVivé shows it to your users. Register on the AppConnect page.
Email admin@geovive.link. See Trust & Security for how we protect your data.