Overview
Create meaningful maps and charts with your own data using Upshot
Rhiza Upshot is a collaborative, location intelligence application for engaging people around data. Users can aggregate existing or collect new data via the web or mobile devices and easily create dynamic maps and vivid charts that can be shared online.
Using Rhiza Upshot’s simple analysis tools, people with no prior experience can create dynamic maps, charts and presentations that help tell compelling data-rich stories. If you’ve ever used Google Maps, you have the skills to use Rhiza Upshot!
Key Features

Map and Chart Data Quickly and Easily
- Layer datasets together and easily customize maps and charts
- Build on the work of others: Snapshots can be shared, copied and become the basis for new derivative works
- Add your own symbology and colors to support your visual language
- Update maps and charts with new data automatically – specify hourly, daily or monthly updates or as new data in the field is added

Share Your Data and Discoveries
- Easily embed Snapshots into blogs, websites and social networks
- Export data as spreadsheets, KML, ESRI Shapefiles, and GeoTIFF
- Securely share private data with authorized users
- Distribute updates to wide audiences through RSS syndication

See Your Data in Context
- Easily gather data from across the enterprise and the web
- Social rating tools provide transparent data rankings
- Crowd-sourcing tools gather user-contributed data from the public or distinct groups

Upshot has gone Mobile
- Create data collection forms and instantly send to mobile devices
- Rhiza Collector is a free mobile application for Android and iPhone devices and allows users to quickly collect location-based photos, audio and data
- Data can be collected without network connection and will sync up when a mobile or Wifi network is available

Create Engaging Google Earth Tours
- Built on top of user-friendly and familiar Google Maps
- Export maps to Google Earth
- Create compelling Google Earth Tours with your data
- Learn more about Google Earth Tours

Quick and Easy Deployment
- Rhiza Upshot is a ready-to-use web application that can be deployed immediately for a small team or across an enterprise. No need to build a custom application
- Several options for data security and access
- Deployment options to meet your needs – choose from cloud-based (SaaS) or on-premise installation options
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Rhiza Upshot Feature Overview: Making Google Earth Tours Duration: 4:04 minutes -
Rhiza Upshot Feature: Customizing Info Balloons on Maps Duration: 1:56 minutes -
Rhiza Upshot Feature Overview: Editing & Adding Records Duration: 2:02 minutes -
Rhiza Upshot Feature Overview: Open Data Kit Integration Duration: 1:24 minutes -
Rhiza Upshot Feature Overview: Importing KML Data Duration: 2:00 minutes -
Rhiza Upshot Feature Overview: Importing GPX Data Duration: 1:37 minutes -
Rhiza Upshot Feature Overview: Adjusting Zoom Level Details Duration: 1:16 minutes
Buy Rhiza Upshot
A Standard Rhiza Upshot Deployment Includes:
- Standalone website, branded with your company’s logo, color-scheme, imagery and url.
- Trouble-free hosting. We keep everything up and running for you in the cloud.
- Public and private settings. Restrict access to authorized accounts or host a public site.
- Unlimited U.S. geocoding.
- Rhiza Collector mobile application for iPhone and Android mobile devices.
Subscription Pricing
| # of Users | Monthly Subscription |
|---|---|
| 25 | $2,500 (or $100/user) |
| 50 | $4,500 (or $90/user) |
| 100 | $7,000 (or $70/user) |
| 200 | $12,000 (or $60/user) |
| 500 | $20,000 (or $40/user) |
*Private Rhiza Upshot websites require Google Maps API Premier license at an additional cost.
Case Studies
Upshot Increases Community Participation in Planning and Economic Development
3 Rivers Connect (3rc) uses Upshot as a communications, analysis and sharing tool to bring together all of the public sector data about the Western Pennsylvania region. Projects have included work with school districts, economic development groups, government agencies and cultural engagement organizations. Read More
Saving the Rainforest and Indigenous Land
Using Rhiza Upshot and the Rhiza Moble Collector App, the Amazon Conservation Team and the Surui tribe of Brazil are working together to collect field data about illegal logging activities and forest conditions to preserve 600,000 acres of land in the Amazon Rainforest. Read More

Members of the Surui Tribe in Brazil are able to capture and share data about their territory with scientists and law enforcement officials.



