Exporting a project · Measure Map Online Help

Download your measurements as a PDF report, a spreadsheet, a Google Earth or GIS file, a CAD drawing, a Measure Map file or a picture of the map.

Export turns a project into files you can hand to a client, open in a spreadsheet or bring into other software: a printable report, a table of measurements, map files for Google Earth and GIS, a CAD drawing, and more. You can pick several formats at once.

Export#

Open the project.
Press Export in different formats in the top toolbar. On a phone, where that button is hidden, open Menu and press Export.
Turn on the formats you want, and turn off the others. The bar at the top says what the project holds and counts the formats that are on; Select all and Clear switch them all on or off.
Optionally, type a file name. If you leave it blank, the files are named after the project.
Press Export.

The window then shows the export being made: your latest changes are saved, the map is photographed, the files are built and downloaded, and each format is ticked off as it arrives. It ends on Your files are ready and closes by itself; the files are in your browser's downloads. One format downloads as a single file; two or more arrive together in a .zip file.

If the export cannot be finished, the window says why and offers Try again. For example, when a change you have just made is still being saved, export again a moment later.

The window remembers the formats and settings you chose, in this browser, for next time.

The formats#

Format	File	What it holds
Printable (PDF)	`.pdf`	A report: the map, the totals, each shape and spot with its measurements, pictures and the estimate
Spreadsheet (CSV)	`.csv`	A table of every shape's name, perimeter or length, area and description, the spots, and optionally each corner and the estimate
Measure Map (MMP)	`.mmp`	The whole project, to import into another project or keep as a copy
Google Earth (KML)	`.kml`	Shapes and spots with names, descriptions and colours, for Google Earth
GeoJSON (GEOJSON)	`.json`	Shapes and spots with names, descriptions and colours, for GIS software
Tracks and routes (GPX)	`.gpx`	Spots as waypoints and shapes as tracks, for GPS devices and apps
AutoCAD (DXF)	`.dxf`	The outlines of the shapes and the spots, with their names, for AutoCAD and other CAD software
Text File (TXT)	`.txt`	Each shape's name and the coordinates of its corners, as plain text
Image screenshot (JPG)	`.jpg`	A picture of the map as it is on screen, without the buttons and panels over it

Measurements are in the units chosen in your settings, and the reports are written in the app's language. Coordinates are latitude and longitude.

Some things stay out of the map files: KML, GeoJSON and GPX carry the shapes, not their measurements; DXF draws the shapes and spots in flat coordinates measured from the drawing's corner, without their place on the globe. Groups and layers go only into the .mmp file. Comments are not exported in any format.

A DXF drawing uses one unit throughout, and the file names it, so your CAD program opens the drawing at the right scale: feet or yards if you measure lengths in feet or yards, metres otherwise.

PDF report settings#

Press next to Printable (PDF), or the row itself, to choose what the report holds. takes you back to the formats.

The PDF settings: the three designs, the letterhead and what the report includes

Under Design, pick how the report looks:

Field card (the default): Everything at a glance, in the app's look.
Survey sheet: Precise, like a technical drawing.
Client brief: Clean and simple for clients.

If your organisation has chosen a design for its reports, the window starts on it. When the organisation requires it, only its owner and Admins can choose another.

Under Letterhead, choose what heads the report: Company details, Logo and Your name (Prepared by). They come from your organisation's profile, or from your own profile and billing details. An organisation's reports always carry its logo and company details; only its owner and Admins can leave them out. If the organisation has written a Note on every report in its profile, it is printed at the end of every report.

Under Include:

Overview: the totals: number of shapes and spots, total area, perimeter and length.
Map: a picture of the map, without the buttons and panels over it.
Images: the pictures attached to shapes and spots. See pictures.
Points: a table of each shape's corners, with their coordinates, the angle and the distance to the next one.
Side lengths on drawings: the length of each side, on the shapes' drawings and on the map picture.
Prices: each shape's price and the estimate. Off, the report has no money in it, and Estimate is greyed out.
Estimate: the priced list of products used in the project. See estimates.

Measurements: 2D gives each shape's figures as drawn on the map. 3D measures it along the slope, from its points' heights, and adds its slope: on a roof or a hillside the surface is larger than the map shows. 2D + 3D gives both. Heights not looked up yet are looked up when you export; a shape still without them keeps its flat figures. Prices, side lengths and the corners table stay as drawn.

Under General: Page size (A4 or Letter), Orientation, Picture size (how many pictures per row) and Sort spots (By name or By icon).

A page of the PDF report with a polygon's measurements and its pictures

Spreadsheet settings#

Press next to Spreadsheet (CSV), or the row itself:

Points: adds a table of each shape's corners.
Estimate: adds the estimate at the end.
Measurements: 2D, 3D or 2D + 3D. The 3D columns are the perimeter and area along the slope, and the slope in degrees; they stay empty for a shape whose points have no heights.
Delimiter: comma, semicolon or tab between columns.
Decimal separator: a point or a comma.
Decimals: from 0 to 3 decimal places.

The delimiter and decimal separator start on the usual choice for your language: a semicolon and a decimal comma for Spanish, German, French and others, a comma and a decimal point for English. If your spreadsheet shows everything in one column, export again with the other delimiter. Do not choose the same character for both: the window warns you when they match.

Each column of lengths or areas uses one unit, named in its heading: the smaller unit of the pair chosen in your settings (metres with Meter/Kilometer, square metres with Square Meter/Kilometer), or your unit itself when it is a single one, such as Hectare or Acre. Small measurements keep their decimals that way, instead of rounding to 0.00 km².

Other ways to get your data#

A picture of the map: Take a screenshot in the top toolbar downloads a picture of the map as it is on screen, with comments hidden. It works on the flat map: in 3D, switch to the flat map first.
Only the .mmp file: Save in the Menu downloads the project as a .mmp file straight away. It is made in your browser and needs no plan.
From the projects list: a project's menu has Export MMP, and the menu of the list itself has Export projects to download all your projects at once. See organising projects.
A quote for a client: the estimate window has its own Print button. See print a quote.
Only some shapes: select them in the Geometries list and press Export .mmp to download them as a .mmp file. See select several shapes.

To bring an exported file back into a project, see importing files.