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How Soarvo Structures Data — Projects and Locations

Overview

Everything in Soarvo lives inside a Location, and every Location belongs to a Project. Understanding this two-level structure makes it easy to organise, share, and navigate your data.

Organisation Project Location A Location B Location C
Soarvo organises data as Organisation → Projects → Locations. Each Location holds its own datasets.

Projects

A Project is a top-level container that groups related Locations together. Think of a Project as the answer to: "What do these sites have in common?"

Common ways to structure projects:

  • By client — all sites for one client in one project
  • By asset type — all bridge surveys in one project, all highway inspections in another
  • By survey type — drone captures in one project, mobile mapping in another
  • By region — all UK sites in one project, Ireland in another

When creating a project you choose a category (General, Drone, Survey, Mobile Mapping, or GIS), a coordinate system, and measurement units.

Locations

A Location is a specific physical site within a project. It holds your actual datasets — orthomosaics, point clouds, 3D meshes, GIS layers, and features are all tied to a location.

A single location can hold multiple datasets of different types. For example: an orthomosaic, a point cloud, an elevation model, and feature layers — all for the same site.

⚠️ Note: Important: All datasets within a single location must use the same coordinate system. If you have data in different coordinate systems for the same site, reproject before uploading or use separate locations.

Each location has a map pin set at creation to mark its approximate position on the world map (used for the Map view). This is a navigation reference point only.

Sharing at Project or Location Level

You can share data with users at either level:

  • Share a Project — gives access to that project and all its locations
  • Share a Location — gives access to only that specific location
💡 Tip: If you regularly share all sites with a client, sharing at the project level is simpler. For more granular control — e.g. different teams on different sites — share individual locations.

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