Follow data, find places like this, publish with OrionGIS

OrionGIS web 1.6.0Released 15 October 2026

Follow places, themes, datasets and portals and hear about new and changed data in an expandable notification pane; find places like any spot with Earth-embedding layers; publishers register their data; the index is open as STAC and DCAT.

Read the announcement: Follow the data you care about, and find places like any place on Earth

Changes since 1.5.0.

#New

  • Follow. Follow a place, a theme, a dataset, a portal, a project's area, or an area you draw, from the pages where they appear or from What I follow. New datasets, source updates, datasets going offline or coming back, and new satellite scenes under your cloud limit arrive as notifications.
  • Notifications you can open. Click a notification to expand it: the datasets with thumbnails, View and Save, new scenes with quicklooks, the area on a small map, and Stop following. Changes from one check arrive as one notification. Read per notification, Mark all read, and filters for Data, Account and Billing.
  • Find places like this. On Earth-embedding layers, starting with the AlphaEarth Foundations Satellite Embeddings from Google and Google DeepMind, click a place and see every part of your area coloured by how alike it is, then keep it as a map.
  • Publish your data. Organisations register their data portal or a single dataset; once our data team approves it, each dataset gets a credited page, and the publisher sees page views and loads.
  • Open STAC and DCAT. The index's public records are available at /data/stac and /data/dcat.jsonld.

#Improved

  • Data Explorer filters to an area (?bbox=), used by "Open the area on a map".
  • Data Discovery for Orion staff. OrionAI proposes new portals to the discovery queue from the STAC Index, Portolan catalogues and, when configured, a web search, each with sample datasets, licence and why it was proposed. Searches that find nothing are listed on Search and growth, where stewards send them to discovery; Google Search Console figures appear there when connected.