# Explore

The workspace map — stack your routes, sites, and boundary layers on one canvas, plan new routes, and share any view by its link.

Explore is the one map in a workspace. Everything with a location — your
routes, your sites, and the boundary and statistical layers behind them — is
drawn here, and this is where new routes are planned.

Open it from the sidebar. The map starts centred on your workspace's base
address, over your country's address data.

## Layers

The layer selector in the toolbar controls what's drawn. Each layer is a
switch, so you can stack as many as you need:

* **Routes.** Every delivery route in the workspace. Click one to see its name
  and address count, and open it from there.
* **Sites.** Your hoardings or signboards, by location. The name follows your
  organisation's industry setting.
* **Boundary layers.** Electorates, statistical areas, and any other layer
  your organisation has enabled. Fine-grained layers stay hidden at national
  zoom and appear as you zoom in.

See [Map data](/docs/workspaces/map-data) for what each boundary layer
contains and when to reach for it.

## Planning a route

Routes are created from Explore: draw an area, or turn on a boundary layer
and select the areas you want, and the address count appears before you
commit. [Delivery routes](/docs/workspaces/delivery-routes) covers it step by
step.

## Show on map

Other pages link back into Explore with the right layers already on:

* **Routes** has **Show on map** for the whole list, and each route's menu has
  one that frames just that route, outlined over the rest.
* **Sites** has the same for your signage.

So the list is for managing and the map is for looking, and either is one
click from the other.

## Sharing a view

Everything about the view — which layers are on, which route is framed —
lives in the page's address. Copy the link and whoever opens it sees the same
map, provided they can open the workspace. Bookmark a favourite combination
of layers the same way.

## The organisation map

Owners and admins also get an Explore across the whole organisation, with
every workspace's routes and sites on one canvas. See
[Organisation map](/docs/organisations/map).

## Next steps

- [Delivery routes](/docs/workspaces/delivery-routes) — Turn an area into a walkable route.

- [Map data](/docs/workspaces/map-data) — What each boundary layer is for.