Curated is purpose-built to help GIS teams, analysts, and business users get location intelligence answers without writing code. Our platform turns natural-language questions into the right ArcGIS queries, layers, and visualizations — so you can focus on the decision, not the plumbing.
Curated's core surfaces — Workspaces, Prompts, Layers, Widgets, and Maps — let you go from a question to a shareable answer in minutes, not days.
What Curated does
You ask, in plain English: "Show me coffee shops within a 5-minute walk of Penn Station with foot traffic over 10,000 per day."
Curated:
- Decomposes that into the right GIS operations — point selection, network buffer, attribute filter.
- Pulls the right ArcGIS layers from your workspace, your ArcGIS Online org, or our curated public datasets.
- Runs the query, renders the result on the map, and explains what it did.
- Lets you refine, save, pin to a dashboard, or export the underlying query.
You stay in control. Every answer cites the layers and operations it used. Nothing is a black box.
Your workspace
Your workspace at <your-org>.curated.chat is where everything lives. From the sidebar you'll see:
- Prompts — the input bar where you ask questions
- Maps — every map you've built, organized by recency
- Layers — the data sources Curated has access to (yours + curated public datasets)
- Widgets — embeddable map components for dashboards or sites
- History — every prompt you've run, searchable
Tip: Press ⌘ K (Mac) or Ctrl K (Windows/Linux) to launch global search and jump to any map, layer, or prompt instantly.
Asking better questions
Curated works best when you give it three things:
- What — the geographic question (find, count, compare, route)
- Where — the location or area scope (a city, a buffer, a known dataset boundary)
- Filter — the attribute constraints (foot traffic > 10k, population < 50k, opened after 2020)
Two examples:
Find all hospitals within 10 miles of zip code 29201 that have more than 200 beds.
Compare population density of census tracts in Travis County, TX between 2010 and 2020. Highlight tracts that grew more than 30%.
Both give Curated enough to compose a precise query.
Tips for accurate answers
- Be explicit about geography. "Texas" is clearer than "the South." A zip code, county, or named place beats an adjective.
- Specify the time frame. Most data Curated draws from is time-stamped. If you want 2024 numbers, say so.
- Use follow-ups to refine. Don't try to cram everything into one prompt. Ask the broad question, then narrow.
- Check the cited layers. Every answer shows which layers were used. If a layer looks wrong, ask Curated to use a different one.
What Curated does NOT do (yet)
- Real-time data outside of ArcGIS Living Atlas and any of your live feeds — Curated answers from layers you've connected.
- Free-form math beyond GIS operations — calculating GDP per capita from two columns is fine; running a Monte Carlo simulation is not.
- Replacing your analyst's judgment — Curated drafts; you review and decide.
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