Quickstart Guide

Welcome to GOAT! This quickstart guide will help you get up and running in no time. Follow these steps to create a project, add data, run your first analysis, style your map and share your work.

Create a new project

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After signing in, you land on the Home page. Click New project and select Blank project. On your first visit, click New project in the Set up your workspace checklist instead. Alternatively, scroll down to Start from a template, click a template, then click Use template and follow the dialog.

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Enter a project name and click Create project. The project opens in the map view.

Add data to your project

You've landed in the map view of your new project. Now it's time to add some data.

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Click Add layer at the top of the Layers panel on the left. In an empty project, the button sits in the middle of the panel. Under New data, choose Upload dataset, Create layer to start an empty layer, or Connect service for a WMS, WMTS, WFS, XYZ or COG source. Under Existing data, choose My datasets or Catalog to add a dataset that is already in GOAT. For full details on each option, see Layers.

Explore the analysis tools

Depending on the layers you have added, you can run different analyses from the toolbox.

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Click the toolbox icon on the map, just to the right of the Layers panel. The Toolbox opens on the right.

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On the Tools tab, the tools are grouped into Accessibility Indicators, Geoprocessing, Geoanalysis and Data Management. Click the tool you want to use and complete its settings. For more detail, see Toolbox.

Style your map

Once you have added the layers to your map and computed the analysis, you can customize their appearance to enhance visualization.

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Click a layer in the Layers panel. Its settings panel opens on the right with the Style tab selected. In the Style section, pick the color you want under Fill Color (Color for a line layer). To style by attribute, click the options icon next to it and choose a field in Color based on.

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You can continue in the Style section: choose a Palette for the attribute-based colors, set the Stroke Color, or, for a point layer, switch on Custom Marker to use an icon as the marker.

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In the sections below, open Labels and choose a field in Label by, switch on the Popup and set up its content, and in Legend choose whether the layer is shown and add a Caption. For more detail, see Layer Styling.

Ready to share your work

Now that you have created your first project in GOAT, it's time to share it with others. You can publish it as a public link or iframe, or share it with colleagues on the People and Teams tabs of the Share dialog.

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Click Share in the upper-right corner of the map.

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Open the Public tab and click Publish to web to make your map public.

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Under Address, click Copy link to share a direct link. Under Embed, click Copy next to Embed Code to copy the iframe code for a website. For more detail, see Public Sharing.