Ellipsis Drive
  • πŸ‘‹Welcome to Ellipsis Drive!
  • Getting Started
    • ⚑Quick Start!
      • 1. Sign up for Ellipsis Drive
      • 2. Creating Vector Layers
      • 3. Creating Raster Layers
      • 4. Creating Point Cloud Layers
      • 5. Data sharing and user access
      • 6. Map building
    • 🏒Set up your organisation
    • πŸ‘₯User Types
      • πŸ”ŽData Scientists
      • πŸ–₯️Developers
      • 🌐GIS professionals
      • πŸ—ΊοΈNon-technical users
    • Capabilities table
    • πŸ“šGlossary
    • πŸ“„Metadata
  • Advanced Usage
  • 🌍Working With Vector Data
    • πŸ–ŒοΈVector styling methods
    • β˜‘οΈFilter vector data
    • πŸ”ŽInspect vector data
    • ✏️Edit vector data
  • 🌏Working With Raster Data
    • πŸ“ˆCreating time series with raster data
    • πŸ–ŒοΈRaster styling methods
    • πŸ”ŽAnalyse raster data
  • πŸš€Sharing & Collaboration
    • πŸ“‚Sharing Folders & Layers
    • πŸ’²Subscriptions on spatial data
    • πŸ“€Transferring spatial data
  • πŸ’‘Good to know
    • 🌍Adding third party layer
    • ⬇️Downloading data
    • ⏳Processing Units
    • 🌏How to change the host location
    • πŸ”Marketplace vs Reseller vs Ellipsis Drive
  • Integrate & automate
    • πŸ”—Integration options
      • πŸ’»Use Ellipsis Drive viewer as embedded window
      • Creating (signed) viewer url's
      • πŸ—ΊοΈDisplay Ellipsis Drive layers in your app
      • πŸ’ΎUse Ellipsis Drive layers in third party software
      • πŸ“‰Query layers from your app
      • πŸ“‚Use Ellipsis Drive to ingest client data
      • πŸ”—Connect Ellipsis Drive to your platform
      • πŸ“ŠPerform analytics on Ellipsis Drive layers
      • 🌐Publish your outputs as Ellipsis Drive layers
    • βš™οΈAPI v3
      • Account
        • Create new account
        • Get account details
        • Login to your account
        • Edit profile
        • Update username
        • Delete account
        • Get transactions
        • List root folders
        • Get user history
        • Change your subscription
        • Change your default storage location
        • Add billing information to your account
        • Security
          • Update email
          • Validate email
          • Update password
          • Reset password
          • Validate password
        • Access tokens
          • Create access token
          • Get your access tokens
          • Delete access token
        • External Layer
          • Add external layer
          • Delete external layer
          • Retrieve external layer
      • Users
        • Search users
        • Get user
        • Invite user
        • Contact user
      • Path
        • Get path
        • Search path
        • Move path
        • Rename path
        • Trash or recover a path
        • Hard delete path
        • Edit path public access
        • Edit path metadata
        • Favorite path
        • White list domains
        • Request access
        • Update hosting location
        • Export for download
          • Export layer or folder
          • Get exports
          • Download an export
        • Hashtags
          • Add hastag
          • Remove hashtag
          • Search for hashtag
        • Invites
          • Invite user to path
          • Revoke Invite
          • Accept invite
          • Get your invites
          • Get path invites
        • Path members
          • Get list of members
          • Remove member
          • Edit member
        • Path subscription plans
          • Add subscription plan
          • Get subscription plans
          • Delete Subscription
          • Subscribe to a path
        • Path Usage
          • Path active users
          • Path usage of user
          • Path aggregated processing units
        • Transfer ownership of path
          • Create transfer
          • Revoke transfer Invite
          • Get transfer invites
          • Accept/Reject transfer invite
      • Path/folder
        • Create new folder
        • List folder
        • Traverse folder
      • Path/vector
        • Create new vector layer
        • Timestamps
          • Add timestamp
          • Edit timestamp
          • Trash timestamp
          • Hard delete timestamp
          • Get timestamp bounds
          • Get feature changelog
          • Find features by ids
          • Search feature by extent
          • Search features by tiles
          • Get the compressed features list
          • List features
          • Location information
          • Vector Features
            • Add feature
            • Edit the features
            • Delete feature
            • Feature Versions
            • Feature Messages
              • Get messages on a feature
              • Get message image
              • Add message to a feature
              • Delete message
            • Feature Time Series
              • Get series
              • Get series info
              • Add series
              • Delete series
              • Series Changelog
          • Upload vector data
            • Upload vector file
            • Get uploads
            • Revert the upload
            • Delete failed upload
            • Download file
          • Export vector data
            • Export vector data
            • Get exports
            • Download an export
        • Styles
          • Add style
          • Edit Style
          • Delete Style
        • Vector Layer Properties
          • Add vector property
          • Delete vector property
          • Edit vector properties
        • Vector layer projections
          • Add a projection
          • Remove a projection
        • Edit filter
        • Edit saved data
      • Path/raster
        • Create new raster
        • Timestamps
          • Tile service
          • Stack rasters
          • Get raster
          • Analyse raster data
          • Location information
          • Add timestamp
          • Edit timestamp
          • Get timestamp bounds
          • Activate timestamp
          • Deactivate timestamp
          • Delete timestamp
          • Trash timestamp
          • Upload Raster
            • Upload raster file
            • Get uploads
            • Delete upload
            • Trash upload
            • Download file
          • Export raster data for download
            • Export raster data for download
            • Get exports
            • Download export
        • Styles
          • Add style
          • Edit style
          • Delete style
        • Edit Raster
        • Edit raster band
        • Raster layer projections
          • Add a projection
          • Remove a projection
      • Path/pointCloud
        • Create new point cloud
        • Timestamps
          • 3D tiles
          • Add timestamp
          • Edit timestamp
          • Get timestamp bounds
          • Activate timestamp
          • Deactivate timestamp
          • Delete timestamp
          • Trash timestamp
          • Point cloud uploads
            • Upload point cloud file
            • Get uploads
            • Delete upload
            • Trash upload
            • Download file
          • Export point cloud for download
            • Export point cloud data
            • Get exports
            • Download export
      • Path/file
        • Create new file
        • Download file
      • Path/bookmark
        • Create new bookmark
        • Fetch bookmark details
        • Update bookmark details
      • Path/setUpTasks
        • Add task
        • Get tasks
      • Path/process
        • Create new process
        • Update a process
        • Execute a process
        • Fetch your process jobs
        • Fetch proces jobs of a path
      • OGC Protocols
        • WMTS
        • OGC API - Features
        • TMS/XYZ
        • WMS
        • Processes API (INFORMATION FACTORY INSTANCE ONLY)
          • Landing
          • Conformance
          • Process list
          • Execute a process
          • Get job status
          • Get job results
        • WCS
        • STAC
          • Landing
          • Root Catalog
          • Folder Catalog
          • Layer Collection
          • Timestamp Item
          • Search
        • Terrain RGB
        • MVT
        • WFS
        • 3D tiles
      • Fast read
        • Vector data
        • Raster data
      • OAuth
        • Authorization
        • Authorization code variant
        • Refresh token variant
      • Ellipsis Drive Pricing
        • Public pricing
        • User pricing
      • Ellipsis Drive locations
        • Get locations
      • Top Up
    • πŸ”ŒPlugins & Packages
    • πŸ”Authentication Options
    • Backwards compatibility
      • Add vector style
      • Add raster style
  • Extra
    • πŸ›‘οΈCertification & Compliance
    • ❓Troubleshoot Issues
      • Failing to upload features with properties of type object or array
      • My raster data does not look good on low zoomlevel
      • Connecting webservice to QGIS and ArcGIS
      • Why don't all features show on every zoom level?
      • Failing to upload a .csv
      • Trouble with EPSG or CRS
      • Failing to upload a Shape file
      • Fix Visualisation Transparency
    • Creating a process
  • PRIVATE DEPLOYMENT
    • ℹ️Introduction
    • πŸ“ƒOverview
    • πŸ› οΈDeployment
      • πŸ”ŒIntegration with existing storage
      • πŸ’½Recommended hardware
      • πŸ“ˆManaging your instance
      • ♻️Backup and recovery
      • πŸ”Security and Compliance
      • ☁️Supported clouds
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  1. Getting Started
  2. Quick Start!

2. Creating Vector Layers

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  • Processing time: Even when your files are small, it may still take 3 to 10 minutes for them to be processed into an active Layer. On Ellipsis Drive there are many users queueing up tasks simultaneously. The system cycles through all of these tasks to get to yours. When the queue growths past a certain length, extra hardware is allocated to work through the queue faster. Because the system allocates hardware dynamically based on the work load detected, you'll find that when processing a large volume of data into an active Layer, the waiting time per MB/GB is much shorter.

  • Background process: Uploading and processing files is a process that runs in the background. Feel free to minimise the tab and work on other things while you wait. Once your files are fully uploaded and the processing stage has started, you can even close the tab entirely.

More about Paths and Layers

Any item in Ellipsis Drive is referred to as a path. A path can be a folder, a file or a layer. Folders and files are similar to what you are used to in a regular file system. Layers within Ellipsis Drive are the holders of spatial data. These layers can be of type vector, raster and point cloud.

Term
Definition

Vector Layer

A layer created for hosting vector data

Raster Layer

A layer created for hosting raster data

Point cloud Layer

A layer created for hosting point cloud data

Every Layer you create is a fully interoperable web-map that is ready for high performance use by any audience you authorise.

  • You can add any number of vector data files to a Vector Layer. So feel free to drop in (way) more then just one!.

  • There is no limit to the size of your Layer. So feel free to make it 25 TB or even more.

  • Within a Layer, you can define one or more timestamps. Very useful when your data is part of a time series!

  • You can uplaod the following formats to a Vector Layer: 'kml', 'geojson', 'csv', 'shape', 'gpkg', 'gml', 'gdb', 'fgb', 'zip' and 'dxf'

πŸ’‘ When uploading a .csv, the file needs to include an 'x' and 'y' (and an optional 'z') column for longitude, latitude, and (optionally) height respectively.

πŸ’‘ When uploading a Shape file, you need to drop in the full zip (not just the file with '.shp' extension).

It's best to define Layers as logical units of data. So, if you have a .gdb or .gpkg with (for example) data on streets, points of interest and buildings in it, it's best to pull it apart and upload the streets, points of interest and buildings data to three separate layers. That makes your data management more much flexible, modular and scalable

To learn more about your options when working with Vector Layers, also take a look at the articles under

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Working With Vector Data