April 9th, 2025
New Feature
Apart from Geojson files, it is now also possible to upload your geodata (points or polygons) with KML files.
Also with KML’s the same rules apply: Only the first point listed in your file will be imported. All polygons will be imported. The geo file has to be in the reference system EPSG:4326 WGS84.
March 26th, 2025
New Feature
Keep your organization and all its projects in a controlled environment. The new Exclusive Navigation Bar for Organizations lets you exchange the traditional explorer.land navigation bar with an exclusive navigation bar for your organization. This prevents visitors from leaving your organization’s presentation and further more enables you to enhance your exclusive navigation bar with customisable links.
While exploring through your orgainzation’s projects, visitors will always be able to navigate back to your organization’s profile page by clicking the organization’s logo on the left side of the navigation bar.
You can also add usefull links to the right side of the navigation bar.
To request the Exclusive Navigation Bar for your organization, please contact sales@openforests.com.
February 13th, 2025
New Feature
Feature improvement
This big feature improvement brings you a completely revamped and rethought version of the old Sponsor Module. Some of the updates made include:
Managing the sponsors and contributions of all your projects from one place
Showing contributions of all or only one sponsor
Link contributions to specific sites (benefitet sites)
Exclusive Sponsor pages
To learn more about the Sponsorship Management tool visit https://help.explorer.land/help/articles/4971846-sponsorships
January 23rd, 2025
New Feature
Just like on any map platform, you have now the possibility to search for any place on explorer.land. This new place search (powered by google earth) let’s you find and navigate to any place on the planet.
Click on the magnifying glas icon on the top left of the map to start your search.
November 21st, 2024
Feature improvement
Searching for projects on explorer.land just got easier! The new explore page lets you filter smarter and with greater precision.
Use the search field to quickly find projects or apply filters from our extended list including:
Organizations
Countries
Activity types
Stakeholder types
SDG’s
Certifications
Goods
Want even more options? Simply click “Show more filters” for a deeper dive.
Filter with Precision discover with ease and explore projects that align with your values and criteria.
Watch the Project Search 2.0 video
August 29th, 2024
Feature improvement
Stakeholders play an important role in shaping a nature-based project. explorer.land allows you to list your project’s Stakeholders and give them the visibility they deserve.
Manage and edit your Stakeholders more easily with the new Stakeholders 2.0 update.
A brand new and more intuitive Stakeholder dashboard interface. Wether you’re creating a new stakeholde entry or adding an existing organization, manage your stakeholders all in one place and decide how they are presented on your project profile page.
To learn more about the new Stakeholder dashboard, visit the Help Desk article here: https://help.explorer.land/help/collections/5163128-stakeholders
July 17th, 2024
New Feature
With this new feature it is now possible to propagate your project’s news to your organization profile.
To find out more about how to use the Organization News propagation, read the article on our Help Desk: https://help.explorer.land/help/articles/3721699-organization-news-propagation
July 17th, 2024
New Feature
Feature improvement
Thematic Layers
With Thematic Layers, explorer.land can provide more information about the project context and its impact. Any relevant global data layer can now be integrated and presented within the Project map so that everyone can have access to more data-driven transparency.
New improvements to the thematic layers:
Search bar by layer name
New search filter by country
New layer categories
Custom default layers on project level
To find out more about how to use the Thematic Layers, please read the article on our Help Desk: https://help.explorer.land/help/articles/1285166-thematic-layers
Or read our blog article on the importance of Thematic Layers: https://openforests.com/media/articles/thematic-data-layers-impact-reporting/
May 7th, 2024
New Feature
The footprint propagation can be used to show a site of your project, e.g. the exact limits or a more diffuse area of influence of your project on the map of a linked Organization and/or Landscape Project.
To find out more on how to activate and use Footprint Propagation, please read the article on our Help Desk: https://help.explorer.land/help/articles/6767722-footprint-propagation
February 14th, 2024
New Feature
In this update, we are announcing two new improvements for the management of Projects:
The new landownership category for Projects
The new Site area field
User Dashboard News
🏷️ Landownership types for Projects
Enhance your project classification with our newest Project category: landownership type. Currently, there are four options available:
Private
Public
Collective/Communal
Other
This addition helps you refine your listings and enables users to tailor their searches more effectively based on their preferences.
💡 Missing an entry? Let us know which entry might be missing in this list.
📐Site area
A new field is now available for all Site entries with one or more polygons, showing its total area in ha.