Product / Talk to the map
Say what you want to see. Watch the map become it.
Curated drives Esri smart mapping from plain language. Predominance, bivariate, dot density, clusters. The renderers a cartographer respects, without the dialog boxes.
- Eleven ways to restyle a layer
- Real Esri smart mapping underneath
- Your original symbology, one word away
01 / Eleven ways to see it
Most tools that chat with a map stop at a choropleth.
Curated goes where the interesting renderers live. Ask which of owners, renters or vacant units dominates each tract, and you get a predominance map, in one sentence.
Choropleth
Shade by a number.
Graduated size
Bigger means more.
Categories
A colour per type.
Highlight
Spotlight a subset, dim the rest.
Labels
Put the values on the map.
Heatmap
Points onlyDensity.
Clusters
Points onlyCount bubbles.
Bivariate
Two numbers, one colour matrix.
Predominance
Which of several wins here.
Dot density
Polygons onlySpread the counts.
Pie charts
The mix, per feature.
02 / It speaks your vocabulary
Ask for quantile breaks and you get quantile breaks.
This is not a chatbot guessing at cartography. What you say maps onto the same Esri smart-mapping parameters you would have set by hand.
And the legend rebuilds itself with a readable title, because Curated has to name the field in human terms before it is allowed to style it.
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“quantile, seven classes”
classification_method: quantile · num_classes: 7 -
“natural breaks”
classification_method: natural-breaks -
“standard deviation”
classification_method: standard-deviation -
“equal interval”
classification_method: equal-interval -
“normalized by total households”
normalization: field -
“as a percent of the total”
normalization: percent-of-total -
“on a log scale”
normalization: log
03 / It volunteers the map
You do not have to ask it to show you.
When the answer is about a place, Curated puts the place on screen. It pins it, zooms to it, and turns on the layers that back up what it just told you.
It drops the pin
It zooms to what it is talking about
It turns on the layers that prove it
The point is not convenience. It is that you get to disagree with it. A number in a paragraph is hard to argue with. The same number, drawn on the ground, is not.
And when you do ask, it works the map for you.
- Find a layer in your portal and add it
- Filter and highlight features, including by related records
- Set transparency, labels and pop-ups
- Draw a drive time or a radius, and measure
- Open the attribute table
- Drop, move and clear pins
04 / Every style is reversible
Your symbology is one word away.
Say “reset” and the layer goes back exactly as it was: the renderer you chose, your labels, your filters, your clustering. Curated stashes all of it before it touches anything.
Styling happens in the view, never on your portal item, so whatever Curated does to how a layer looks, it can undo.
- The renderer you chose
- Your labels and where they sit
- Your filters
- Your clustering
- The effects you had applied
05 / On the way
The map is getting more conversational, not less.
Built with the analysts using it every day, and shipping next.
In development
Sketch and annotate by asking
Freehand shapes and notes on the map, drawn from the conversation.
Save a styled map back to your portal
Today a style lives in the view. Persisting it as an item is next.
The basemap and layer order
Panel controls today. Conversational ones next.
When Curated does write to your data, adding or editing records in one of your layers, it shows you the change and waits for approval by default, and on layers that keep a change history, each edit can be restored.
Bring a layer you know well. Ask it something hard.
The fastest way to judge this is to put a map you already understand in front of it and see whether it does what you would have done.
Twenty minutes, on your own web map, with the legend panel open.