How do I import farms and fields from a file?

If your fields are already mapped in another tool or in a grower’s files, import them instead of drawing them again.

On the web

1. Open Places and choose Import places from the menu.
2. Under Place file, choose your file.
3. Select Preview import. You see how many places are in the file.
4. Pick the Name column and the level for each shape type, for example points as farms and outlines as fields.
5. Nothing is saved yet. Check the preview, then select Confirm import.
6. When you see Imported and the count, select Open map to check them.

Accepted files

• CSV
• KML or KMZ
• GeoJSON (.geojson or .json)
• A shapefile in a .zip, with all its parts

Good to know

• A file can be up to 20 MB and up to 10,000 shapes.
• A zip or KMZ can hold up to 1,000 files and 100 MB unpacked.
• A .shp file on its own is not accepted. Zip it with its .shx, .dbf and .prj files.
• Map layers you only want to look at, not as places, can go in the Map under Your layers, with Upload layer. GeoJSON up to 20 MB or PMTiles up to 100 MB.