Organizational Catalog

The Icon Map Organizational Catalog is a Fabric item that lets your organization curate its own internal library of geospatial layers, stored in OneLake and searchable from the Add-a-catalog panel of any map (under a separate Organizational Catalogs tab).

Use it to publish approved, governed layers — your own boundaries, sites, networks, and reference data — so map authors across the organization reuse the same trusted data.

How it's stored and governed

Each Organizational Catalog is backed by a repository folder in OneLake that holds the layer assets (tilesets and a bounds dataset) and a catalog manifest. Access is governed by OneLake folder permissions — whoever can read the folder can use its layers. This means the catalog inherits your existing Fabric governance rather than introducing a separate permission system.

Adding a layer

Add a layer by uploading a source file — GeoJSON, Shapefile, GeoJSONL, or GeoPackage (GPKG). The catalog generates a map-ready tileset from it, moving through Draft → Generating → Ready. You can also:

  • Import layers from ArcGIS feature layers (see Importing from ArcGIS).
  • Give a layer a default style so it looks consistent wherever it's used.
  • Put a layer on a daily refresh schedule, so its tileset is regenerated from the source overnight to stay current.

Visibility

Each layer has a visibility setting:

  • Organization — surfaces the layer to others who can see it in their workspaces. This is a discovery preference; actual access is still governed by OneLake permissions.
  • Personal — keeps the layer to yourself.

Next steps