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Preview for geospatial data.

The fastest way to open, inspect, and share spatial files on macOS. Open GeoJSON, Shapefiles, GeoPackages, KML, PostGIS, and ArcGIS layers instantly — no project, no setup, just your data.

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Scope

THE CLIPBOARD IS THE TRANSPORT LAYER

Copy geometry anywhere. Paste it here.

Select in ArcGIS Pro, a PostGIS query, or QGIS and hit ⌘C. Switch to Scope, hit ⌘V. GeoJSON or WKT — it just lands on the map.

ArcGIS Pro ⌘C

PostGIS ⌘C

QGIS ⌘C

Scope ⌘V

And it sticks around — every geometry you paste is kept in a clipboard history in your menu bar, one click from copying it back out.

Capture. Look. Share.

Everything Scope does is one of three steps — and the whole loop takes less time than opening a GIS.

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⧉ Send to Scope

1 · CAPTURE

Click a parcel on any Esri web map and hit Send to Scope. Or a file, ⌘V, a watched folder, a Parquet URL, PostGIS.

Scope

Area 0.41 ac·Perimeter 801.2 ft

PARCEL_ID04‑118‑023

AREA0.41 ac

ZONER‑2

OWNERJ. Smith

35.227902° N, 80.843127° W · EPSG:3857 50 ft

2 · LOOK

It lands on the map instantly. Click any feature for its attributes, open the table, measure, annotate.

mapscope.app/share/#eyJ2Ijox…

GeoJSON KML CSV GPX PNG

3 · SHARE

A link that opens in any browser — the whole map lives in the URL, so there's nothing to upload and nothing to expire.

The browser extension is the front door, the share link is the back door — Scope is the two seconds in between.

Add to Chrome Browser extension free · included with every Scope license

Built for five-minute tasks

Not every map needs a project. Sometimes you just need to —

Inspect a dataset

Click a feature for its attributes; open the full table and sort it.

Measure a parcel

Click points for distance, then area. Save as a layer.

Annotate & export

Drop markers, draw, then export a clean PNG.

View a PostGIS table

Point at your database and see it live on the map, filtered to the viewport.

Open cloud data

Read GeoParquet straight off an S3 or HTTPS URL. No download.

Verify geometry

Does the shape land where it should? See instantly.

Convert formats

GeoJSON, KML, CSV, GPX — read one, hand back another.

Share a map

Copy a link, hand it off. Nothing uploaded.

PART OF THE MAC

Your files already know what they are

Quick Look, thumbnails, Spotlight, Services — the things macOS already does, for geospatial files too.

parcels.geojson

14,381 polygons

trails.gpx

36 tracks

shore.kml

2 polygons

wells.csv

46 points

zoning.gpkg

312 polygons

islet.shp

1 polygon

FINDER THUMBNAILS

Six files, six silhouettes. Every geospatial file's icon is its own geometry — you can tell a parcel fabric from a trail network from a shoreline without opening a single one.

QUICK LOOK · SPACE
coastline‑2024.geojson
2 features · 231,840 vertices
Polygon · WGS84 EPSG:4326

Press Space in Finder — the geometry is on screen with the numbers you'd otherwise open a GIS to find.

SPOTLIGHT · mdls
kMDItemFeatureCount 14381
kMDItemGeometryType Polygon
kMDItemBoundingBox 45.51,−123.11
kMDItemCRS EPSG:4326

Indexed the moment the file lands on disk. Right-click → Services converts it without opening the app.

Every day vs. when you need it

EVERY DAY

Open Scope.

The 30-times-a-day tasks. Look, measure, check, export. Two seconds to open, zero to think about.

WHEN YOU NEED IT

Open QGIS.

Heavy analysis, topology, processing models. Scope never tries to replace it — it just gets you there less often.

Like Preview and Acrobat. You know which one you open first.

BUILT TO STAY FAST

A quarter-million vertices, still instant

Geometry gets simplified and viewport-filtered before it ever reaches the renderer.

SIMPLIFY
231,840 → 231,840 pts
tolerance 0 m (full detail)

100% kept

SIMPLIFY SLIDER — DRAG IT

Douglas–Peucker with a live vertex readout. It rewrites the layer, not just the renderer, so exports and share links get the reduced geometry too — slide back to 0 and the full detail returns.

36 tracks · 41.8 km
viewport query · 42 ms

LIVE LAYERS

PostGIS and GeoParquet re-query as you pan — filtered to the viewport, simplified for the zoom, debounced so one huge table can't stall the map.

▸ open coastline-2024.geojson
2 features · 231,840 pts
Polygon · EPSG:4326 · 96 ms
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Above ~150k rows, PostGIS tables switch to server-generated vector tiles automatically. No row cap, no zoom limit.

⌘K

Everything, one keystroke away

Paste, measure, annotate, export, switch basemaps, connect to PostGIS, toggle a layer. Search it, run it, never touch the mouse.