Guides

🌱 Mobile Soil Sampling

Generate sample grids, navigate to points with GPS, scan bag barcodes, and export results — all from your iPhone or iPad.

📋 Custom Data Collection Forms

Build field data entry forms with pick lists, barcode scanning, photo capture, and signature fields for consistent, structured data.

🗺️ SSURGO Soils & FEMA Flood Maps

Pull in SSURGO soil survey data, FEMA flood zones, rivers, and wetlands directly on your phone — no desktop GIS required.

💪 Loading Large Shapefiles

Open county-wide parcel data and massive spatial datasets on your phone without the app crashing or slowing down.

🗺️ Getting Started with Your Data

Import shapefiles, GeoJSON, KML, and GeoPackage files onto your iPhone or iPad. Color-code your data, add labels, and search the full attribute table.

📴 Offline Maps for Fieldwork

How GoGIS works without internet — GPS, data collection, and cached basemap tiles, all fully offline.

📍 GPS Field Data Collection

Turn your iPhone into a GPS data collector. Create custom forms, collect points, scan barcodes, and export your data.

📂 How to Open a Shapefile

Step-by-step guide to opening .shp files on iPhone and iPad with full attribute and layer support.