Project templates

Templates are starting points, presets apply at export

A template is a starting point for a new project: it is applied when the project is created. An export preset is a saved export configuration applied at export time in an existing project. Both are available to everyone — they are not paid features.

What a template stores

• Default tags — prefilled into the tag picker when you create a project; you can edit them before creating.
• A snapshot of the export settings — paper size, track and control styling, and so on. The project title overlay is not part of the snapshot; the new project uses its own name.
• The map layer — the aligned map image with its tie points, overlay points, georeferencing and DPI. The file is referenced, not copied: a template adds no storage cost, and the file is kept while any template or project still references it.

Templates are snapshots: editing or deleting a template afterwards never changes projects already created from it.

Saving a template from a project

On the dashboard, open the ••• menu on a project card and choose Save as template. It captures the project's tags, export settings and the active map layer. Give the template a name and it is ready the next time you create a project.

Creating a project from a template

In the Create New Project dialog, pick a template under Start from template. Its tags are prefilled and stay editable, and the new project is created with the template's export settings and map layer already in place. The Manage button (and Settings → Templates) opens the template manager, where you can create, rename, edit tags or delete templates.

Templates and export presets: which one wins

A project created from a template keeps the template's export settings — opening the Export step does not overwrite them with your last-used or default preset. As soon as you explicitly select or apply a preset in that project, your preset choice takes over from then on.

If a template's map file is no longer available when you create a project, the project is still created — without the map layer — and the workspace tells you so.