Geo Data Collector vs MyGIS Usage & Stats
Geo Data Collector is an advanced field data collection mapping app
Flexible form designer and adhoc in-app form building
Supports saving data in GeoJSON and conversion to GeoPackage Vector Features and other formats coming soon.
Form design is a JSON file that’s easily shared and distributed to other users. Design form on our form builder webpage https://mapdata.xyz/form_generator/ or in the app
This works completely offline (all data is stored locally in the app)
Does NOT Require any server-side database or ESRI featureserver or any API like OGC WFS-T to use this. NO proprietary formats.
Supports capturing of Points, Lines or polygon geometry and Point Averaging and Point Offset
Rapidly switch between forms
Review collected data, edit collected data, delete a record, go to location on the map
Add photos from camera or from Photos/Gallery
Attribute table/grid with search for both collected data and user loaded data.
Advanced vector tile basemap with 11 styles to choose from (online/offline) including a Terrain/Topo style, 3D Building style (when tilted), Bright,Positron, Toner, DarkMatter and hybrid
Online raster tile basemaps from ESRI
Optional in-app purchase for Offline Map Data (to users area of interest)
OpenStreetMap Vector Tiles with more than 8 Stylesheets to choose from including Terrain/Topo Style
Contour Lines Vector Tiles
Hillshade Raster Tiles
Satellite Imagery Raster Tiles
GADM Boundary
Support for user loaded mapping data:
GPKG vector features (users can style their data also supports dynamic raster tiles generation for handling big data)
GeoJSON Vector GIS Data with attributes (users can style their data)
MBTILES - Raster tiles
MBTILES - Vector tiles (users can apply a style their data)
GPKG - Raster Tiles (EPSG:3857 web mercator only)
In-App Vector Data Converter - convert User Zipped Shapefile (WGS84), KML, GPX, CSV, WKT to GeoJSON
Vector Layers
Reference overlays that can be turned on and displayed on the map
Layer Display Order - to control the display of different data
Advanced Map Features:
Display Latitude and Longitude (MGRS and GARS GRIDS)
Display Magnetic Declination
Measure Linear and Area Distance
Spatial Bookmarks - Placemarks feature - save reference to a spot with notes
Advanced geolocation settings with follow (move the map) and follow with heading or course
Other capabilities:
Go to Coordinates - move the map to Lat Long or other coordinates
Coordinate Converter
Geolocation Sharing
Weather Conditions/Forecast
Sunrise/Sunset, Time, Timezone, Elevation
GPS Tracker/Recorder - record track and share as GPX or GeoJSON
Open Street Map Search (nominatim place names and addresses and overpass API for points of interests)
Compass
Settings to turn off coordinate box
File Manager
Office File (Word, Excel, Powerpoint) Viewer, PDF Viewer, Image Viewer
Easily Upload and Download files via:
Cloud Integration (Dropbox and SugarSync)
FTP Server & WEBDAV servers
WIFI Sharing - share content on your phone/tablet and even allow uploading of files via a webpage accessible on any device on the same network
Intuitive easy to use interface
Forms support (Text field, text area, select/drop down, number, date field, check box and radio button )
You can denote fields as required or optional
For select/drop down you can allow the user to support multiple selections.
No Need to build Project file with desktop GIS Software like QGIS or Global Mapper (Input, QFIELD, Global Mapper Mobile)
There is no vendor lockin as there is no Back-end Service or Database Required
Optimized for both iPhone and iPAD
works with internal GNSS Receiver (iPhone and iPAD 4G/5G) as well as External Bluetooth GNSS Receivers
We can Build custom Solutions to suit your needs and requirements and workflows
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Create your own custom map with annotations and lines and share it via email or twitter.
A real GIS, with maps and database.
You can drag items from the sliding bar at the top (if it is not displayed, click on the icon at the top right). There are a variety of symbols to choose from. The item is initially inserted without any data.
To change the title and/or subtitle associated with an annotation, you must select it in the map and then click in the window that appears.
To move an annotation you must first put the map in edit mode by clicking on the icon at the top right. At this point, you can select an annotation on the map and drag it. By bringing it over the trash can at the bottom right (which appears only after putting the map in edit status), the annotation is deleted. To return the map to its default state and finish moving, click on the edit icon again.
Deleting an annotation can be done in two ways. Through the "View and edit data" functionality, selecting the delete button. Or through the placemark move functionality, by dragging it over the trash can.
To insert lines, select the "draw" icon in the top right (below the edit icon), and then start drawing lines on the map.
Viewing and editing Linea data click to collapse contents
To change the title and/or subtitle associated with a placemark, you need to select it in the map and then click in the window that appears.
To edit a line you must first bring the map into edit mode by clicking on the pencil icon at the top right. At this point, the movable vertices of the lines are highlighted with red squares. If the vertices are far enough apart, a fictitious intermediate vertex is also displayed to be used for actually inserting a new vertex. To return the map to its default state and finish moving, click on the pencil icon again.
Deleting a line is done by deleting all its vertices (that is, dragging them onto the trash can). You can completely delete a line using the "View and edit data" functionality by selecting the delete button.
You can share the portion of the map currently displayed via Twitter or via email by clicking on one of the two icons at the bottom left. By sharing the map via email, a .kmz file is also attached.
MyGIS has the ability to save a MyGIS.kmz file that can be opened in other applications (for example, dropbox, to be able to save it). By also selecting a file with the kmzMyGIS extension, you can choose to open it with MyGIS, in which case the contents of the file replace the map with the contents.
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Geo Data Collector VS. 
MyGISMay 3, 2026