Geo Hound

Tracking since Apr 18, 2026.

Changelog

• May 17, 2026
  description

  Geo Hound automatically detects and saves GIS services while you browse the web. This powerful extension identifies WMS, WMTS, WFS, ESRI services, tile services, and geospatial files from any webpage you visit, organizing them in a convenient dashboard for later use.
  
  Perfect for GIS professionals, researchers, and web developers who need to gather and validate geospatial services efficiently.
  
  🔥 **New Enhanced Features:**
  
  **Smart CORS Testing** - Automatically tests web compatibility for all detected services
  - Identifies which services work in web mapping applications (Leaflet, OpenLayers)
  - Distinguishes between image-compatible tiles and full CORS-enabled services
  - Real-time compatibility status: "Web Map Compatible," "Fully Compatible," or "Disabled"
  
  **Advanced Service Validation** - Ensures detected services actually work
  - Validates tile coordinates and zoom levels
  - Tests service endpoints with GetCapabilities requests
  - Filters out broken or inaccessible services
  
  **Comprehensive File Detection** - Beyond just services
  - Detects KML/KMZ, GeoJSON, Shapefiles, GeoTIFF files
  - Identifies downloadable geospatial data formats
  - Organizes both services and files in one dashboard
  
  With Geo Hound, you can:
  
  ✅ **Save detected services** with automatic deduplication
  ✅ **Test web compatibility** with one-click CORS validation  
  ✅ **Normalize URLs** for use in ArcGIS, QGIS, and other GIS applications
  ✅ **Organize services** with custom folders and notes
  ✅ **Search and filter** your collected services and files
  ✅ **Disable detection** on selected URLs or domains
  ✅ **Export service information** for team sharing
  ✅ **Track service analytics** with cloud database integration
  
  **Perfect for:**
  - GIS analysts building web mapping applications
  - Researchers gathering geospatial data sources
  - Developers integrating mapping services
  - Data scientists working with spatial APIs
  
  Stop manually copying GIS service URLs, testing CORS compatibility, or digging through network requests. Let Geo Hound automatically hunt down and validate geospatial services for you, saving hours of tedious work while ensuring web compatibility.

  Geo Hound automatically detects and saves GIS services as you browse — WMS, WMTS, WFS, ESRI FeatureServer/MapServer, OGC API
    Features, tile services, and downloadable geospatial files. Found a useful service? It's already in your dashboard.
  
    Built for GIS analysts, researchers, and developers who waste hours hunting through network panels and copying URLs by hand.
  
    🔥 New in v1.7
  
    Download the data, not just the URL
    - Grab features from WFS, OGC API Features, and ESRI FeatureServer/MapServer as GeoJSON
    - Visual query builder with field autocomplete and coded-value domains
    - Draw a bounding box on an interactive map to limit downloads to your area of interest
    - Reproject on the fly to any supported CRS
    - Export WMS imagery as PNG, JPEG, or GeoTIFF at any size
  
    Community service directory
    - See which services other Geo Hound users have discovered on the same site
    - Ranked by reliability and discovery count
    - Your tile services and credential-bearing URLs stay private — they're never shared
  
    Smarter detection
    - Auto-discovers sibling layers when you land on a single ESRI layer
    - Reads live Leaflet and MapLibre maps directly from the page
    - Consolidates sharded tile CDNs into a single {s} template
    - In-memory deduplication prevents tile floods from overwhelming the list
  
    Rich service metadata
    - Renders full HTML descriptions, keywords, layer lists, supported formats, and CRS
    - Bounding box and geographic coverage extracted automatically
    - Provider, title, and abstract pulled from GetCapabilities
  
    Smart CORS testing
    - Identifies which services actually work in web mapping applications (Leaflet, OpenLayers)
    - Distinguishes image-compatible tiles from fully CORS-enabled services
    - Status badges: "Fully Compatible," "Web Map Compatible," or "Disabled"
  
    With Geo Hound, you can:
  
    ✅ Detect services automatically as you browse
    ✅ Download features and imagery to GeoJSON, PNG, JPEG, or GeoTIFF
    ✅ Test web compatibility with one-click CORS validation
    ✅ Normalize URLs for ArcGIS, QGIS, and other GIS apps
    ✅ Organize services with custom folders and notes
    ✅ Search across name, URL, type, and notes
    ✅ Disable detection on selected URLs or domains
    ✅ Export saved services as JSON for team sharing
  
    Perfect for:
    - GIS analysts building web mapping applications
    - Researchers gathering geospatial data sources
    - Developers integrating mapping services
    - Data scientists working with spatial APIs
  
    Stop manually copying GIS service URLs, testing CORS compatibility, or digging through network requests. Let Geo Hound hunt
    down, validate, and download geospatial data for you — saving hours of tedious work on every project.

Permissions & access

Permissions

storagewebRequesttabsdownloads

Host access

<all_urls>, https://*.supabase.co/*

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