Teams allow groups of people to collaborate on maps together.
A team is a shared workspace that contains members and maps. Teams are commonly used by classrooms, organizations, or groups that need to work on the same set of maps.
Team Roles
Each member of a team has a role that defines what they can do.
There are three roles:
- Admin
Admins manage the team. They can invite or remove members, change roles, and manage maps inside the team.
- Can Edit
Members with edit access can open and modify maps shared with the team.
- Can View
Members with view access can open maps but cannot make changes.
These roles determine how members interact with maps inside the team.
Moving a Map to a Team
Maps can live either in your personal workspace or inside a team.
When you move a map into a team, that map becomes part of the team’s shared space. Everyone in the team will see it and access it according to their team role.
Moving a map to a team is useful when the map should permanently belong to that team.
Sharing a Map With a Team
You can also share a map with a team without moving it.
In this case, the map stays in your personal workspace, but members of the team are given access to it.
This is helpful when you want to collaborate on a map without placing it permanently inside the team.
How Team Sharing Works
When a map is shared with a team, each member’s access is determined by their role.
Admins can manage the map, members with edit access can modify it, and members with view access can only open it.
This makes sharing simple because you don’t need to configure permissions for each person individually.
Team Roles vs Map Access
Team roles define a member’s general level of access inside a team.
For example:
- Admins can manage the team and its members.
- Can edit members can modify maps.
- Can view members can open maps but cannot make changes.
When a map is moved into a team, everyone in that team can access the map according to their role.
When a map is shared with a team, the same rule applies. Each member’s access is based on their role in that team.
In other words, team roles determine how each member interacts with maps shared with that team.
Keeping Maps Private
Not every map needs to be inside a team.
Maps that should remain private can stay in your personal workspace instead of being moved into a team.
Teams are designed for shared work, while personal spaces are best for individual maps.
Availability
Teams are available on Team and Organization plans.
Users on the Personal plan can still create and manage their own maps, but team collaboration features require a Team or Organization subscription.