Data Hub

The Data Hub brings trusted open geodata into ALIGN, so you can start a project without hunting for data first. Browse a catalogue of open datasets, preview an area, and extract just what you need straight into your map. You open it from the Map Builder; in the App Builder, the AI Builder searches it for you.

The Data Hub panel

Open the Data Hub from the left rail. It lists the available providers. Choose the ALIGN catalogue to open the browser: a map of regions on one side, the collections on the other, kept in sync so you can explore by place or by dataset.

Browse, preview, extract

The Data Hub is built around three steps:

1. Browse: pick a region on the map, or a dataset in the catalogue.
2. Preview: see the data over your area of interest before you commit.
3. Extract: pull just your area into your map.

The extract is saved to your Datastore as a normal asset, so it behaves like any other layer. You only bring in what you need, over the area you care about, instead of downloading a whole national dataset.

What you can reach

Two global datasets are always there:

• Overture Maps, global open map data: buildings, places, transportation and more.
• Sentinel-2 imagery, open satellite imagery.

Alongside them, the Data Hub reaches national and regional open-data portals directly. Belgium, the Netherlands, France and Luxembourg are covered today, with cadastre, buildings, addresses, administrative boundaries and reference imagery, depending on what each portal publishes.

The panel lists what is actually available to you, with each source’s licence and the attribution it requires. That list is the reference: it is read from the catalogue, not from this page.

Federation-first, not a copy

The Data Hub does not re-host the data it offers. It connects to open data where it already lives, through open standards: OGC API Features, WFS, WMS and WMTS, ArcGIS REST and STAC. You extract the area you need, when you need it, and what you extract carries its source’s licence and attribution with it.