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.
04 / Nothing it does is permanent
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.
Nothing is written back to your portal item. Whatever Curated does to a map, it does in the view, in front of you, and 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.
These are in development. We would rather tell you what is coming than let you discover the edge of it in a demo.
In development
Add a layer by asking for it
Today layers come from your web map, or you add them by hand. Asking for one is in development.
Draw and edit on the map
Sketching, annotating and editing features from the conversation.
Deeper filtering, by voice
More of the filtering and selection work that currently lives in the panels.
Save a styled map back to your portal
Right now a style is a view. Persisting it as an item is on the way.
The basemap, layer order and transparency
Human controls today. Conversational ones soon.
One thing that is not on this list, and will not be: Curated does not write to your portal item behind your back. Whatever it does to a map, it does in the view, in front of you, and it can undo.
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.