Google Drive

Granting access

To grant access to a Google Drive directory or file, you will first need to locate the dedicated GCP service account that we use to securely read your organization's data. You can find this under Cloud Access instructions in the user menu.

Copy this address for the next step.

In Google Drive, right-click the file or directory, and under "Share" click "Share".

Finally, give the service account email "Viewer" permissions to read it.

If you've added a directory, from now on Earthscale should be able to read any files contained in that directory!

Adding a dataset via shareable links

To obtain the dataset URL, right-click the file, and under "Share" select "Copy link".

Click "Copy link" to obtain a shareable dataset link

Next, paste the URL into the "Dataset URL" field in the "Add New Dataset" menu to register the dataset.

Paste the shareable link into the "Dataset URL" field.

Then click "Next" to continue and add the dataset to Earthscale.

Currently, in Google Drive, we only support adding one file at a time, such as a GeoJSON or GeoTIFF. For more complex datasets with multiple files, such as GeoTIFF directories or Zarr stores, please upload to another data provider listed in Access Your Own Data. For .shp files, please export to another single-file format such as GeoJSON.

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