Tutorials
These tutorials walk through common MappView workflows end to end. Each one is short, builds on the User Guide, and links back to the reference pages for the features it uses.
Before you start
- You can follow most tutorials in the browser build by running
bun run devand opening http://localhost:5173/. - A few steps need the desktop app: opening and saving project files, reading local MBTiles and rasters, and the Python sidecar tools (raster processing, sidecar conversions, and Whitebox). These are called out where they appear. See Downloads to install.
- The sample dataset used in several tutorials is a public GeoParquet file of world countries:
https://data.source.coop/giswqs/opengeos/countries.parquet.
The tutorials
| Tutorial | You will learn to |
|---|---|
| Your First Map | Add a layer, style it, inspect attributes, and save. |
| Cloud-Native Data | Load remote GeoParquet, FlatGeobuf, and COG, and convert local data. |
| Vector Analysis | Buffer and overlay layers, then export the result. |
| Terrain Analysis | Derive hillshade, slope, and contours from a DEM. |
| Spatial SQL | Query data with DuckDB Spatial and map the results. |
| Sharing & Embedding | Share a project and embed it in a web page. |
Work through them in order for a guided tour, or jump to the one that matches your task.