The GIS data behind any web map. Found, saved, ready to analyse.
Geo Hound spots the map services on a page as you browse, then lets you map, query, and analyse them right in your browser. No DevTools. No desktop GIS required.
Free to install in Chrome or Edge. The detector and workbench are free. The assistant gives you up to 10 free questions a month.
FIG 01 / WORKBENCH / SAVED SERVICE AS A LIVE LAYER
The old way
You should not need the network tab to find out what is drawing the map.
BeforeOpen DevTools, watch requests, scroll, guess, copy, clean up the URL.
FIG 02a / DEVTOOLS / NETWORK TAB ON A PUBLIC MAP VIEWER
AfterBrowse the map. The services are caught, named, and saved.
FIG 02b / GEO HOUND / POPUP WITH DETECTED SERVICES
How it fits together
Three layers, in the order you meet them.
Layer 1 / Detectorfree
It watches the network so you do not have to.
As you browse, Geo Hound reads the traffic and the page for geospatial services and files, and saves what it finds with its metadata. The toolbar badge counts them as they arrive.
Detects 29 service and file types, from WMS and FeatureServer to OGC API and GeoPackage.
Saves title, provider, layers, keywords, CRS, and bounding box. Sort into folders, search across the lot.
Tests CORS, and hands you the URL pre-formatted for QGIS or ArcGIS Pro.
FIG 03 / DETECTOR / SERVICE CARD, METADATA AND CORS BADGE
Layer 2 / Workbenchfree
A GIS workspace, in a browser tab.
Saved services become live map layers. Import your own files alongside them, then do the work: filter, select, analyse, symbolize, export. Sessions save themselves and come back when you return.
Attribute table with an AND/OR filter builder, column stats, and CSV export.
Buffer, spatial join, nearest distance, select by location, split multipart. Result layers chain into further analysis.
Export to GeoJSON, KML, Shapefile, XLSX, CSV, a PNG map, or a PDF report.
FIG 04 / WORKBENCH / A BUFFER RESULT OVER IMAGERY
Layer 3 / Assistantup to 10 free a month
GIS analysis for people who do not know GIS software.
An assistant that sits inside the workbench and drives it for you, using 26 tools. You do not need to know what a spatial join is. You just ask the question.
Ask in plain English. It queries, buffers, joins, styles, exports.
Only layer schemas, counts, and small capped samples are sent to the model. Your datasets are not uploaded wholesale.
Conversations are not stored on our servers.
FIG 05 / ASSISTANT / A QUESTION AND THE MAP THAT ANSWERED IT
The assistant
Do not like a colour? Tell it. Need a number? Ask it.
Assistant7 questions left
You
Buffer the wells by 500 metres and tell me how many parcels fall inside.
Geo Hound
buffer / wells / 500 m
select_by_location / parcels
get_statistics / count
Tool steps are free. The question cost 1 credit.
134 parcels fall inside the 500 m buffer. I have added the buffer as a new layer and selected the parcels on the map so you can export them.
Some of what people type. Each one is a real command the assistant can carry out on the data already in front of you.
Styling
Make the flood zones orange and label them by name.
Analysis
Buffer the wells by 500 metres and tell me how many parcels fall inside.
Statistics
Which suburb has the most building consents?
Joins
Join the soil types onto my imported paddock boundaries.
Distance
How far is each school from the nearest fire station?
Export
Select everything inside this polygon and export it as a shapefile.
