Daniel O'Donohue

Ongoing, Founder and developer

GeoHound

A Chrome extension that finds the GIS services behind any web map as you browse, and hands you the URL ready for QGIS or ArcGIS Pro.

Visit geohound.app

I built GeoHound because I was tired of digging through a browser’s network requests to find the data behind a web map.

It runs quietly while you browse. When a page loads a map service, GeoHound spots it and saves it: WMS, WMTS, WFS, ArcGIS FeatureServer and MapServer, OGC API endpoints, tiles and around 29 service and file types in all. For each one it records the title, provider, layers, keywords, coordinate system and bounding box, tests whether the service allows cross-origin requests, and formats the URL so it can be pasted straight into QGIS or ArcGIS Pro.

It has a few thousand users, mostly GIS people who spend their days hunting for data.

Used: WMS, WFS, ArcGIS REST services, OGC APIs, JavaScript, Browser extensions

Get in touch

The easiest way to reach me is by email at danodonohue@gmail.com.