Hyz Workspace

What it is¶

Hyz Workspace is a GIS workbench in a browser tab: your data as layers, a live map, tools and tables around it. Open it at /workspace.

It opens without an account. Signed out you can add files, style them, analyse them and read their attributes. Signing in buys what the browser cannot do alone: running server tools, and keeping the work. Deep links (?dataset=, ?presentation=, ?project=, ?tool=) open it already loaded.

The ribbon¶

The ribbon is the workspace's whole chrome. Its top row is identity: your name, your tier, the allowance left for the selected tool, and — if an organization sponsors you — a Bill to switch between Personal and the org's credits. Below, three groups:

Group	What is in it
Data	Add data, Browse Haiyz, Open project, sample data, zoom to extent, bookmarks, undo/redo
Tools	Select, Measure, Sketch, coordinate grid, basemap opacity
Share	Save workspace, Publish to Hyz Maps, Export PDF, Export data, PowerPoint, PNG snapshot

Getting data in¶

Upload. Drag files onto the map or use the picker: Shapefile archives (a .zip or the loose .shp/.dbf/.shx/.prj set), GeoJSON, KML/KMZ, GPX, GML, GeoPackage, FlatGeobuf, Parquet, spreadsheets. CSV and Excel add one step: the X/Y columns, the coordinate system, and whether rows become points, a line or a polygon.

Browse Haiyz puts what is already on the platform one click away:

Tab	What it lists
My data	Your data items, and any your organization linked to you
Public	Data items other people published
Published layers	Hyz Layers published as services that you may view — added by reference: the project keeps the reference and the revision you saw, the data is pulled from the service when the project opens. See Published layers, copies and revisions
Data rooms	Rooms you manage or joined — picking one loads every item
Open data	Entries for sources we do not host, so they open the catalog page instead
My files	Earlier uploads and tool outputs a map can draw

Sample data loads a demo set to try tools with nothing of your own.

Layers¶

Exactly one layer is active: that is what a tool runs on. Each row carries a fixed colour swatch, a badge saying where it came from — uploaded, data item, or tool result — and any ingest warnings. Per layer you can reorder, hide, rename, filter by attribute, restyle, zoom to, download or remove.

A filter is a view: hidden features stay in the file but leave the map, totals, table, identify and export at once.

The analysis panel¶

Under the layer list is a second engine: free, instant, in your browser. Arm Identify and a map click reports what is under it; arm Pick target and a click chooses the feature the operations work on:

• Intersection — which features of the chosen layers touch the target.
• Buffer — a zone at a distance you type around the target.
• Nearest — the closest features, as many as you ask for.

Tick the layers to search, or tick none to search every visible one. The answer lands in the Analysis tab under the map, where it becomes a session layer, chains as the next target (a buffer zone answering "what falls inside it?"), downloads as GeoJSON, or saves as a data item carrying its parameters as provenance.

Running tools¶

The toolbox lists the spatial categories — conversion, extraction, geometry, measurement, combine, raster. Image and document utilities are absent by design; find them in the tools catalog.

1. Pick a tool. Tools your tier does not unlock are still listed, marked with the tier that does.
2. Set parameters. The form comes from the definition the server validates against, so what you see is what runs. The input is the active layer or the current selection.
3. Run. Long runs report progress and can be cancelled; the result arrives as a layer.

Runs are metered per tool — see Quotas & fair use.

Reading your data¶

• Attribute table — search, page, choose columns, flag duplicates, compute per-column statistics, jump from a row to its feature. Picked rows join the selection.
• Charts — bar, line, area and scatter over a layer's columns, by count, sum or average.
• Selection — everything selected now, from table rows, identify hits or armed map clicks. Clear it, frame it, turn it into a layer, or wrap it in a convex hull, box or circle.
• Log — every operation of this session, in order.

Sketching, measuring and the map¶

Sketch draws points, lines and polygons by hand; on exit the drawing becomes an ordinary layer that styles, exports, analyses and saves like any other. Measure reports distance and area, and a coordinate grid lies over the basemap, whose opacity is a slider.

Bookmarks save the current view by name and travel with a saved workspace. The status bar reports the pointer in decimal degrees, DMS and UTM, and 3D re-renders the same layers over real elevation.

Saving and publishing¶

• Save workspace stores the whole canvas — layers, order, styles, active layer, bookmarks, view — so you reopen it and carry on. Layers from a data item are stored as references to a pinned version, not copies. Saving over a workspace a colleague changed meanwhile is refused, not overwritten.
• Publish to Hyz Maps freezes the canvas into a sealed interactive map with its own address and audience; later work here does not change it. See Maps.
• Save as data item turns one analysis or tool result into a stored item. See Data items.

Getting data out¶

Export data opens the Fields Manager over your visible layers — visibility is the selection, so hide anything you want left out. Rename, reorder and drop columns, merge same-named fields, add spatial-relationship columns. GeoJSON is built in the browser, free and instant; Shapefile, KML and the other server formats spend one run of the export tool's allowance, and Shapefile column-name truncation is reported first.

Export PDF produces a print-ready map sheet with title and legend, PowerPoint captures the view as a slide, PNG snapshot the image alone.

Good to know¶

• Signed out is a real mode, not a demo. Map, layers, filters, identify, buffer, intersect and nearest all work without an account.
• The active layer is the tool's input — check which row is selected, not which draws on top.
• Ticking no candidate layers means all of them — an empty tick-list is the common case, not an error.
• Publishing does not link a map to the workspace. It is a sealed copy: to change it, reopen it with ?presentation= and save back in rather than publishing again.
• An Enterprise organization can require a confidentiality acknowledgement once per browser session; declining returns you to your personal workspace.