Sharing an item

Every item in GratisGIS has a sharing tier. The tier decides who can find and open the item.

The three tiers

• Owner only (default). Only you can see the item.
• Organization. Anyone signed in to your organization can see the item. They can read it; they can't edit unless they're the owner or an admin.
• Public. Anyone with the link can see the item, even without signing in. Used for shareable web apps and embeddable maps.

How to change a tier

1. Open the item's detail page.
2. Scroll to the Sharing section.
3. Pick a tier. The change saves immediately.

What sharing does NOT do

• It doesn't grant edit access. Sharing controls read access only. Edit access stays with the item's owner (and the org's admins). To let someone else edit, hand off ownership using Reassign owner (admin only).
• It doesn't override file-system permissions. If a layer is shared publicly, its underlying PostGIS rows are readable through the API. Don't share a layer publicly if any of its attributes are sensitive.

Dependencies

If you share a map but not the data layer the map references, users who can open the map still won't see the layer. The Dependency panel above Sharing surfaces this: a yellow warning appears when the item depends on something less-shared than itself.

For forms, sharing is double-keyed: the form item controls who can submit, the paired data layer controls who can view submissions. See Forms → Sharing a form for the details.