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Glossary

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Account

To become a user of Ellipsis Drive, one must have an account with Ellipsis Drive. With an Ellipsis Drive Account, you can do things like store, share and sell spatial data.
Term
Definition
Free Account
Users with a Free Account can store up to 5GB of data without any fees being levied.
Regular Account
Users with a Regular Account can set a storage limit of their choice but cannot make content private.
Pro Account
Users with a Pro Account can make data layers private. The storage fee for Regular and Pro accounts is based on the storage size a user allocates.

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Data

Ellipsis Drive is here to help people share, manage and commercialize spatial data. Spatial data can be raster data or vector data. The words raster and vector refer to types of data. Ellipsis Drive uses raster and vector data to refer to data that clients have or may have.

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Layer

Layers are the units of spatial content. Users can create layers to store their data. These layers can be of type raster or vector.
Term
Definition
Raster Layer
A layer created for storing raster data is called a raster layer
Vector Layer
A layer created for storing vector data is called a vector layer

Vector Layer

A layer created to store vector data is called a vector layer. These vector layers consist of features.
A vector-layer can have one or multiple styles.
Term
Definition
Feature
A feature is a representation of a real-world object on a map. These features have a geometry that can be a point, multi point, line, multi line, polygon or multi polygon. A feature also has properties containing some non-spatial information. These features can have multiple versions. Users can attach time series and messages to features. A message can have an optional image.
Geometry
A geometry is used to represent the spatial component of features . The geometry gives some geographical location.
Style
A style defines a colour for the vector based on a set of rules applied to the properties of the vector.
Properties
A vector can have properties, these contain the non spatial information of the feature
Timestamp
A timestamp is a container for all vector files belonging to the same date range.
Time series
Time series are sets of triples of date, property and value. They can be added to a feature.
Messages
Messages with optional photos can be added to a feature.

Raster Layer

A layer created to store raster data is called a raster layer.
Term
Definition
Timestamp
A timestamp is a container for all raster files belonging to the same date range.
Style
Styling method offers the user various options to represent data.

Ellipsis Layer / External Layer

Term
Definition
Ellipsis Layer
If a user works in his or her own Ellipsis Drive environment, we refer to a layer as an Ellipsis layer.
External Layer
If a user creates maps using layers not hosted on Ellipsis Drive, we refer to those layers as external layers.

♻️ Sharing Status

Data in Ellipsis Drive can be shared with your audience by setting up the correct status on the map or folder.
👉 Read more about sharing status here.

🔓 Access Level

Using the access levels offered by Ellipsis Drive, users can control the actions that the audience should be able to do on the shared data. There are different access levels that can be set over a map or a folder.
👉 Read more about access level here

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File System

For each account, Ellipsis Drive has 4 roots. My Drive, Shared With Me, Favorites, and Trash. These roots can contain folders and blocks.
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Definition
Path
The location of a layer or folder is called a path.
My Drive
My Drive root stores all the layers and folders that are owned by a user
Shared With Me
In the Shared With Me root, a user can find all layers and folders that are shared with them.
Favorites
The Favorites root contains layers and folders that have been favorited by the user.
Trash
Trash contains all removed layers and folders owned by that user.

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Storage

Term
Definition
Active Storage
ACTIVE storage makes your data available in the ED viewer as well as via the web services.
Passive Storage
Data in the PASSIVE storage is not available as an online map. To be able to access your data, you need to activate it.

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Ellipsis App

The Ellipsis app has main locations defined in the table below.
Term
Definition
Drive
Drive is the location that is used to manage the file structure. Users can organize folders and layers here.
Settings
These settings can be utilized to manage a layer.
Viewer
This is used to inspect a layer or create view out of multiple layers
Library
To search for content
Storage Dashboard
To manage/upgrade your storage space
Account
To manage username, avatar, OAuth client etc.
Balance
To manage all your finances and payment options

❌ Removal

Items in Ellipsis Drive can be removed in a reversible or irreversible manner.
Term
Definition
Item
An item can be a layer, folder, feature, timestamp etc.
Archive
Archive is an action where an item is removed in a reversible way
Delete
Delete is an action where an item is removed in an irreversible way