Receiving a survey delivery
Your surveyor has delivered a release to your organisation. Here is what it costs you, what you have to do, how long you can download it, and what the receipt proves.
What each organisation does
The surveying organisation
- Publishes the survey as a numbered release with a checksum.
- Delivers that release to your organisation by the code you gave them, and sets how long you may download it.
- Keeps paying for the files until they retire them, and can extend your window free of charge.
Your organisation
- Creates a GISweaver organisation, on any plan including the free one, and gives the surveyor its organisation code.
- Signs in and opens the delivery. Accepting it is optional and changes nothing about what you can download.
- Reviews the release in the browser and downloads the files, as one archive or one at a time.
What receiving costs
Nothing. Receiving a delivery uses none of your storage and is refused on no plan; the files sit on the surveyor’s organisation and count against theirs. The one act on your side that your plan decides is copying the release into your own account, below.
Signing in
You sign in to your own organisation, with your own account. There is no shared link to forward and no password to pass around: access belongs to your organisation, and who inside it may open the delivery is decided by the roles you set.
How long you can download
The surveyor sets the window — a year by default, up to two years at the outset — and can extend it at no cost. Ask them if you need longer. Downloading everything does not close the window: you may keep downloading until it ends or the surveyor retires the files.
What a receipt proves
When every file has reached you, a signed receipt is written and kept by both organisations for as long as Alonstech operates the Platform. It names the two organisations, the release and its publication date, and every file with its size and SHA-256 checksum — so you can show exactly which bytes you were given, and when.
It proves the handover, not the survey. Whether the survey is accurate and fit for your purpose is a matter between you and the organisation that published it.
Keeping a copy in your own account
A delivery can be copied into a project of your own. The files are copied — not referenced — into your organisation’s storage and published there as a release of yours, so they survive the surveyor retiring theirs or the window ending.
- The copy counts against your own storage from then on, and it is the one part of receiving a delivery that your plan decides. The plans page states what each plan includes.
- Every file is read back and re-hashed against the delivery’s own checksums after it is copied, and the release records where it came from: the delivery, the sending organisation’s legal name, the source release and its manifest checksum.
- A single file larger than 5 GiB cannot be copied this way, and the copy is refused before anything is moved rather than partway through.
Ready to look at the product?
The plans page lists what each plan includes and what it costs. If you would rather ask a person first, the support page is the way to reach one.