Modular Geospatial Architecture

Powerful components built for
every map experience.

From temporal scrubbing and thematic vector styling to rich multimedia curation and scrollytelling, GeoExhibit provides battle-tested building blocks for modern GIS applications.

Comprehensive Feature Suite

Explore the 16 core building blocks for creating, curating, and publishing interactive geospatial digital experiences.

Experience

Timelines

Map-linked chronological journeys. Each step pairs a date milestone with rich media attachments and a dedicated map view, supporting both click-step and scroll-driven modes.

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Content

Items

Digital catalog records for physical artifacts, specimens, historical records, and cultural objects. Attach photos, audio, and documents with standardized Dublin Core metadata.

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Content

Places

Curated geographic locations and points of interest. Establish spatial coordinates and bounding geometries that link directly to items, historical narratives, and exhibition stops.

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Experience

Exhibits

The flagship curated exhibition experience. Build multi-page showcases with custom site navigation, embedded maps, interactive blocks, multimedia galleries, and research essays.

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Experience

Story Map

Narrative journalism that syncs longform storytelling with dynamic background maps. Readers scroll through chapters while the camera navigates coordinates, layers, and focus pins.

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Experience

List Map

Sequenced, map-linked guided tours, itineraries, and catalogs where geography, rather than chronological dates, forms the primary organizational structure.

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Content

Pages

Flexible Page Builder for designing standalone articles, research essays, institutional homepages, and landing pages with custom embeddable spatial widgets.

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Experience

Text Maps

Located narrative essays with inline spatial annotations. As visitors read, text passages interactively focus, highlight, and zoom to specific coordinates on the background map.

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Maps

Atlas

Thematic multi-layered map viewer. Combine vector tiles, raster overlays, and geographic data with interactive layer toggles, opacity sliders, and categorized thematic groups.

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Maps

Maps

Visual Map Builder to create, style, and compose maps. Configure basemaps, add vector layers, define zoom boundaries, and set initial center views with an intuitive UI.

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Data

Data Views

Spatial data management and tabular inspection. Upload GeoJSON, Shapefiles, or GeoTIFFs, inspect attributes, apply custom vector styling rules, and preview layers live.

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Content

Galleries

Searchable, filterable visual grids showcasing digital photography, artwork, and cataloged collections with high-resolution lightbox inspection and metadata details.

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Experience

Vertical Story

Vertical scroll-driven map narrative. Downward scrolling smoothly moves the camera through saved viewpoints, synchronizing chapter text with pitch, bearing, and zoom.

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Experience

Horizontal Story

Widescreen horizontal narrative layout. Visitors advance step-by-step through spatial chapters in a cinematic presentation flow ideal for interactive displays and presentations.

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Maps

Comparison Map

Interactive swipe-slider and side-by-side comparison tool. Compare two sets of layers on the same basemap to analyze historical changes, land use, or environmental shifts.

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Content

Documents

Dedicated repository for archival papers, research reports, PDFs, and legal or historical records linked directly to items, places, and spatial exhibits.

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Engineered for Developer Velocity

Engineered from first principles with zero bloat and seamless interoperability.

Framework Agnostic

Works natively with React, Vue, Svelte, Angular, or standard vanilla HTML5 via lightweight custom elements.

60 FPS WebGL Engine

GPU-accelerated vector and raster rendering handling hundreds of thousands of spatial features without lag.

Air-Gapped & Secure

Complete support for self-hosted instances, on-premise spatial databases, and private tile servers with zero vendor lock-in.

Ready to bring your maps to life?

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