Help

Welcome to the help pages for the Minnesota Geospatial Commons!

We hope these help pages will guide you through using and contributing to the Commons. Take a look at the topics listed below and in the side menu, and please stay in touch and let us know how we can help you.

• Learn about how things are organized on the Commons
  • What is a resource?

• Learn how to find and evaluate data, services, maps and apps on the Commons
  • Search
  • Browsing Resources
  • Narrowing Results
  • Advanced Search
  • Evaluating Results

• Learn about how to access and use resources.
  • How to download data
  • How to use services
  • API Developer Resources

• Learn how to become a publisher on the Commons
  • Steps for publishing resources
  • Maintaining and updating published resources

• Learn about resource format types and other standards, such as resource categories in Library section of the Commons Help.
  • Legal Disclaimer
  • License Types
  • Resource Formats and Types
  • Topic Categories
  • Publisher Codes
  • URL Type Codes

• Keep in touch​
  • Contact Us
  • Register as a Commons User
  • Notifications, Following and RSS
  • How to comment