Permissions

This page lists what members are allowed to do in a Kumoy organization. Use it as a reference to look up whether a specific role can perform a specific action. For the concepts behind these settings and how they combine, see Seats and Roles.

How to Read This Page#

Permissions in Kumoy follow two independent axes:

Organization operations (managing the organization, members, teams, and billing) depend on the member's organization role: Owner, Admin, or Member.
Content operations (creating, editing, and viewing maps, projects, and data) depend on the member's team role in each team: Editor or Viewer. The Editor team role can only be given to a member with an Editor seat, so seat type sets the ceiling for content access.

In the tables below, ✅ means the action is allowed and ❌ means it is not.

Organization Permissions#

These permissions are controlled by the organization role. They are independent of seat type and team role.

Action	Owner	Admin	Member
Belong to the organization and use assigned teams and projects	✅	✅	✅
Invite members to the organization	✅	✅	❌
Change a member's seat type	✅	✅	❌
Change a member's organization role	✅	✅	❌
Remove members from the organization	✅	✅	❌
Create, edit, and delete teams	✅	✅	❌
Add, change, or remove team members	✅	✅	❌
Edit organization settings	✅	✅	❌
Assign the Owner role	✅	❌	❌
Change the plan and add-ons (billing)	✅	❌	❌
Delete the organization	✅	❌	❌

For step-by-step instructions, see Manage Organization Members and Manage Teams.

Content Permissions#

These permissions are controlled by the team role in each team, and a member can have a different role in each team. The Editor team role requires an Editor seat; a member with a Viewer seat can only be a Viewer. Both roles can open and explore the content shared with the team, but only Editors can create, edit, publish, or delete it.

Viewing and Exploring#

Action	Editor	Viewer
Open web maps shared within the team	✅	✅
Open standalone vectors and rasters, including their metadata	✅	✅
Pan, zoom, and rotate the map	✅	✅
Toggle layer visibility and expand or collapse legends	✅	✅
Inspect a feature's attributes from the map	✅	✅
Open the attribute table and sort, reorder, or hide columns	✅	✅
Filter data in the attribute table (temporary, per view)	✅	✅
Select and locate features from the attribute table	✅	✅
Open the Share panel and copy the map's share link	✅	✅

Creating and Editing#

Action	Editor	Viewer
Create and edit projects	✅	❌
Manage projects within the team	✅	❌
Create and upload maps, vectors, and rasters	✅	❌
Edit vector features and attributes (QGIS and web)	✅	❌
Edit map, vector, and raster details (name, description, attribution)	✅	❌
Save and delete maps, vectors, and rasters	✅	❌
Publish a map to the web	✅	❌
Change a map's publication status (public/private) and keyphrase	✅	❌

People who open a public map or a keyphrase-protected map without signing in can view it without a seat or a team role. See Seats and Roles for details.

Effective Access by Combination#

Because organization roles and team roles are independent, the same member can manage the organization while only viewing content, or edit content without any organization-management access. The Common Combinations table shows how the two axes combine.

Last update: Oct 7, 2026 23:52:25