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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 only

Density.

Clusters

Points only

Count bubbles.

Bivariate

Two numbers, one colour matrix.

Predominance

Which of several wins here.

Dot density

Polygons only

Spread 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.

  • “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.