Sarkoa Documentation
Sarkoa hosts geospatial data and serves it as maps. You upload a file, Sarkoa builds a web-ready copy of it, and you view, share, or embed the result. Your original stays downloadable, unchanged.
New here
Three pages, in order, and you will have something on a map:
- Quick start: sign up, upload a file, look at it
- Concepts: the handful of words the rest of the docs assume
- Sharing and access: how to let someone else see it
If you would rather know what Sarkoa is before creating an account, start at Introduction.
Using the app
- Web app: files, folders, and account settings
- Custom maps: building a map, styling layers, publishing it
- Embeds: putting a map on your own website
- Collaboration: comments, live annotations, downloads, contributions
- Time series: showing change over time
- File optimization: what happens to a file after upload
- Feature query: asking which features match, and searching the raster catalogue
Connecting other tools
- Authentication: signing in, and API keys
- CLI: upload, list, and download from a terminal
- QGIS plugin: your Sarkoa library inside QGIS
- MCP: connecting Claude, Cursor, and other AI agents
- Skills: an optional instruction pack for those agents
- Map documents: maps as JSON, for scripts and agents
- Webhooks: signed events, instead of polling for status
- API reference: which host serves what, and the public tile API
Reference
- Troubleshooting: what to do when something goes wrong
- Tile requests: what counts toward your usage
- Pricing and plans: what each plan includes
- System status: measured uptime
- Support and contact: getting help