BeaconGIS
1. Introduction
Last Updated: January 12, 2026About the Project BeaconGIS is a Geographic Information System built for Urban Explorers, by an Urban Explorer to cater to the unique needs of our underground communities worldwide. This platform overcomes the limitations often reached by explorers who utilize services such as Google MyMaps which often restrict the ability to work with large datasets. BeaconGIS…
2. The Basics of GIS
Last Updated: January 12, 2026What is GIS? GIS stands for Geographic Information System. These systems are incredibly powerful; they allow you to store, manage, analyze, edit, visualize, compare and correlate different sets of data. You are likely interacting with a form of GIS everyday! Google Maps, for example, is probably the most common for people. It has a base…
3. Getting Started With BeaconGIS
Last Updated: January 12, 2026What do I need? A Device A laptop or desktop computer is most ideal to interact with BeaconGIS but is only required for some things. We do support phones and tablets through GeoNode’s responsive website theme. This option does work pretty well for browsing maps, but expect there to be limitations or problems when attempting…
4. Accessing Resources
Last Updated: January 12, 2026Opening a Map or Dataset On BeaconGIS, your individual map layers are treated as individual Datasets, rather than each map having its own internal layers that only live inside that map. Having your layers as individual Dataset has the benefit of allowing you to have as few individual maps as possible and should reduce your…
4. Viewing Features
Last Updated: January 12, 2026On BeaconGIS, we offer a few different ways to view your data. Please note, if clicking on a feature does shows no results were found, open the Layers panel and ensure that you don’t have a single layer selected. This will restrict your query search to just that layer. Option 1: Clicking on Features Clicking…