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14 step-by-step guides, from your first sign-in to field work with no signal.

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First steps in Tairu Maps

Get to know Tairu Maps from your first sign-in: the login screen, expeditions, contacts, profile, settings and QR Code invitations.

8 stepsOffline: Partial
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Core concept

What an expedition is in Tairu Maps

Understand the expedition as the space that brings together map, records, chat and members — and who can do what: User, Administrator and Owner.

8 stepsOffline: Yes
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Core concept

Creating a local expedition

Step by step to create a local expedition in Tairu Maps: the simplest way to start in the field, without depending on cloud sync.

10 stepsOffline: Yes
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Choosing a plan

Differences between the Offline, Online and Realtime plans

Choose the right path for how you work: local work on the Offline plan, continuity through the cloud on Online, or collaboration during the operation on Realtime.

Offline: Partial
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Settings

Backing up and restoring data

Export a copy of your data and learn how to restore it. On the Offline plan, backup is the main protection against data loss.

14 stepsOffline: Yes
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Field work

Using Tairu Maps without internet

Prepare the expedition, work on the map, collect records and finish with a backup without depending on the cloud.

12 stepsOffline: Yes
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Offline maps

Importing a TairuDB map for offline use

Import a .tairudb file into an expedition to use maps and layers prepared before field work, even on the Offline plan.

10 stepsOffline: Yes
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In the expedition

Creating a record with a photo

Create a photo record during an expedition: take the picture from the map menu, adjust name, description and geometry, save it and find the record later.

8 stepsOffline: Yes
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QGIS plugin

How to create an offline map for Tairu Maps using QGIS

Step by step to create an offline map in QGIS with TairuDB, save it locally or send it straight to an expedition in Tairu Maps.

5 steps
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Getting around

Calculating a land route along roads

Calculate a road route inside the expedition: distance, estimated time and the route saved as a record, calculated on the device itself with the downloaded road regions.

11 stepsOffline: Yes
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Getting around

Downloading roads and calculating a land route offline

Download the roads of the region before you leave and calculate the route in the field with no signal at all — the calculation runs on the device itself.

8 stepsOffline: Yes
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External data

Adding a geoservice that requires a username and password

Add a login-protected WMS, WMTS or WFS layer to the expedition: username and password, or a key in the URL, with caching for offline use.

11 stepsOffline: Partial
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External data

Filtering a layer by attribute

Narrow down what a layer draws on the map using the attributes of its own features — only the active wells, only the contours above 800 m.

8 stepsOffline: Yes
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Terrain

Seeing terrain elevation and the track profile

See the altitude of any point and the elevation profile of a route inside Tairu Maps, without leaving the map and without depending on the internet.

8 stepsOffline: Yes
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