Edit / delete my projects
If you’d rather watch a video, scroll to the bottom of this page. Important: please only edit / delete your project if you have entered it manually through the FWV platform. If your project has been published via an automatic feed, any edits or deletions you make in the FWV will be overwritten by the […]
Add a project
If you’d rather watch a video, scroll further down. Adding the project details Click on ‘My Organisation’s Projects’ Icon. You can only see this icon if you signed up for a ‘project planner’ account. Click the top left + button, ‘Add new project’.
Search for a project
You can search for projects multiple ways. Search for a project on the map
Navigate the FWV
If you’d rather watch a video, see further down. How do I navigate around the map in FWV? When you first log in, the map will be zoomed out to the whole of New Zealand. You can move around the map in three ways: When you log back in, the map will open to the […]
Draw boundaries (auto uploaded project)
If you’d prefer to watch a video, see further down. Drawing / editing boundaries from an automated project upload, supplied with no shapefile Organisations can supply us with projects that don’t have a shape file, and the organisation can then draw the shape on the map within the Forward Works Viewer. For example, if you […]
Draw boundaries (manually added project)
If you’d prefer to watch a video, see further down. Drawing / editing project boundaries from a manually created project To draw, edit or delete a project boundary, you need to edit the project. Click on the edit icon on the project summary page (or the stage page if you’re editing a stage boundary). If […]
Bulk vs Manual upload
The Forward Works Viewer can ingest data in multiple ways: If projects are input via methods 1 and 2, any manual edit of the published projects will be overwritten next time the data is uploaded by methods 1 or 2. Method 1 – bulk upload via an APIWe can usually extract data from any systems […]
RAMM to NFWV
RAMM layers can be published to the NFWV. If you have data held in RAMM, follow the below steps to create a URL of the data you want to share. 1) Set up a RAMM layer that you want to share. What you see on the RAMM map will be what is published to the […]
Detect Clashes / Opportunities
The Forward Works Viewer has built in clash/opportunity detection. A clash is a project which is occurring in the same shape boundary, during the same time, as your project. An opportunity is a project which is occurring in the same shape boundary, at a different time to your project. The shapes have to overlap on […]
Access stacked projects
If you’d rather watch a video, see further down. In busy areas, there will often be multiple projects stacked on top of each other. To access a project which may be hidden underneath another, click on the project. This will open up a menu on the left-hand side which will list all of the projects […]