Connection Requirements & Data Flow for Strategy Geospatial Services
This specific article is targeted towards Strategy Administrators who need to understand the flow of data with Strategy Geospatial Services. In this article, you will find helpful tips and tricks, as well as diagrams of the data flow. The following diagrams at the end of the article will explain the complete data flow and all servers involved in the process. Below, you'll find the workflow diagrams.
The Four Workflow Diagrams
There are four workflow diagrams:
Reading the workflow diagrams
In order to better understand the data flow within the following diagrams, keep the following in mind:
Review the workflow diagrams




Working with firewalls
If your Strategy client is behind a firewall, add api.mapbox.com to an "allow list" (sometimes called a whitelist). Mapbox uses distributed and dynamically-allocated servers rather than a fixed set of IP addresses. Normally you can add mapbox.com to an allow list, but in some cases you may also need to add specific domains including:
For any further questions, feel free to start a discussion or reach out to your Support liaison to open a case.