How to Upload Your Own Map Boundaries

By default, DonerDesk maps draw the built-in world: country outlines and province borders. If your programme works with its own geography — districts, sub-districts, chiefdoms, project zones — you can upload your boundaries once, and every map in the workspace draws them instead.

What you need

• Administrator access to the workspace (Settings is where the upload lives).
• One GeoJSON file with your boundaries — a FeatureCollection whose features each carry a shape (polygon). Most GIS tools, and free converters for Shapefile or KML, export GeoJSON. The file can be up to 12 MB.

Upload the boundaries

1. Go to Settings.
2. Find the Custom map boundaries card.
3. Choose your .geojson (or .json) file.
4. Click Upload boundaries.

The card then shows the layer's name, how many boundaries it contains and its size. From that moment, every map in the workspace — the plan's Map view and the Where we work section on each project Overview — draws your boundaries instead of the built-in outlines.

Replace or remove

• Replace: upload a new file the same way. The new layer takes over at once; there is exactly one layer per workspace, so there is never a mix.
• Remove: click Remove the uploaded boundaries. Maps go back to the built-in country and province outlines. Activities you pinned by hand keep their positions.

Good to know

• Nothing leaves your workspace. The file is stored inside DonerDesk and drawn from there — no map provider sees your locations.
• Every feature needs a shape. The upload is checked before it is accepted; if a boundary in the file has no polygon, the upload tells you which one and nothing changes.
• Pin places still work. Activities whose location text matches a known town stay where they were; activities pinned by hand stay exactly where they were pinned. Your boundaries change the picture, not the data.