Felt
FreeCollaborative map-making in the browser. Draw on maps, add pins, upload data layers, and share with your team. A Google Maps replacement for storytelling with geographic data.
How to install Felt as a PWA
Frequently asked questions about Felt
What makes Felt different from Google My Maps?
Google My Maps is a free, basic personal mapping tool tied to a Google account with limited styling and no team collaboration. Felt is a collaborative platform with real-time multi-user editing, rich layer support (raster, vector, point, line, polygon), strong styling controls, and embeddable interactive maps. Google My Maps is fine for a personal travel map; Felt is what teams use to build journalism stories, real-estate dashboards, and community-organizing maps.
Is Felt free?
Felt offers a free tier for personal use covering basic maps and limited storage. Paid plans start around $15/month per editor for teams, with enterprise pricing for larger organizations. Compared to ArcGIS Online ($500+/user/year for entry tiers) or full QGIS hosting, Felt is dramatically cheaper while delivering a cleaner UX for non-GIS-specialist users.
How does Felt compare to ArcGIS Online?
ArcGIS is the GIS industry standard with 35+ years of geospatial expertise — deep spatial analysis, 3D visualization, advanced cartography, and enterprise data infrastructure. Felt is a modern, collaboration-first platform with a fraction of the GIS depth but vastly better UX and team workflows. For traditional GIS workflows (urban planning, environmental analysis, large-data spatial queries), ArcGIS remains essential. For journalism, communications, and team mapping, Felt is faster and friendlier.
Can I use Felt offline?
Felt is a server-backed collaboration platform — maps live in Felt's cloud and real-time collaboration requires connectivity. The PWA shell caches for fast loading but the maps themselves load tiles on demand. For offline mapping, dedicated offline tools (Organic Maps, OsmAnd) remain the choice. Felt's offline support is limited to read-only access of previously-loaded maps.
Who uses Felt in production?
Felt is used by newsrooms (The New York Times, ProPublica, Reuters) for data-journalism visualizations, by real-estate teams for property mapping, by community organizers for canvassing maps, by environmental nonprofits for habitat tracking, and by urban-planning consultants. The platform launched in 2021 and has rapidly become the default collaborative-mapping choice for non-specialist teams. Traditional GIS shops remain on ArcGIS or QGIS for analytical workloads.
Where Felt is heading (12-24 months)
- →Advanced spatial analysis (buffer, intersect, raster math) would let Felt encroach on QGIS and ArcGIS workflows.
- →Stronger time-series visualization (animated maps over time) would attract journalism and environmental users.
- →Public marketplace of base layers and shared datasets would accelerate use-case discovery for new users.
Related questions
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- What data formats can I import into Felt?
- Does Felt support custom basemap styles?
- How does Felt handle large datasets (1M+ rows)?
- Can Felt embed maps into a CMS like Webflow or WordPress?
- Is Felt SOC 2 compliant for enterprise data?
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