Cartographer has a simple permission system. Every user account has a set of roles that determine what they can do and see. You have one role for each workspace, project, and team that you’re part of.

You can see your roles on your My Account page, which you can access from the user menu in the bottom left of the site:

There’s a section called Roles that lists your roles in each of your workspaces, projects, and teams. We’ll describe what each role is below:

Every user has roles for the workspaces, projects, and teams they’re part of. A single user can be part of many workspaces, projects, and teams, but they only have one role in each.

For example, Alice can be a Project Surveyor or a Project Coordinator in her local Wildlife Monitoring project, but she can’t be both. She can, however, be a Project Surveyor in the Wildlife Monitoring project and a Project Coordinator in a different project.

The Roles

There are four workspace roles, four project roles, and four team roles, listed below:

Each role subsumes all of the capabilities of the ones above it in the grid. For example, a Project Approver can do everything a Project Surveyor can do, and a Project Surveyor can do everything a Project Member can do.

Workspace Roles

Project Roles

Team Roles

Teams are a feature available on larger national- and international-scale projects. They allow projects to be divided in to semi-autonomous groups of people that can manage and approve their own surveys: