Spatial Analytics

Spatial Analytics

Buffer it, overlay it, measure it — the analysis behind site selection, catchments and service areas, without writing a line of code.

Slope and hillshade analysis of Mount Fuji in Map Studio, explained by OrionAI with a colour key
Benefits

Analysis without the specialist bottleneck.

Analysis without code

Buffer, overlay, proximity and zonal statistics through the interface — no desktop licence, no script to maintain.

Grounded in governed data

Every analysis runs against catalogue layers with provenance attached, so results trace back to their inputs.

Answers your team can use

Results come back as maps and layers you can style, publish and embed — not as a folder of files.

Features

The questions most spatial work actually starts with.

Buffer, overlay and proximity

Distance, intersection and containment across any layers in the catalogue — the operations behind site selection, catchments and service areas.

Open the catalogue
Zonal statistics

Summarise population, land cover or any attribute inside a boundary — wards, catchments, project areas — and read the numbers back on the map.

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Ask in plain language

Describe the analysis you want and OrionAI assembles it against the catalogue — and the result is verified before anyone acts on it.

How OrionAI works
Results are data, not pictures

Every result is a layer: style it, export it in an open format, or serve it over OGC to the tools your team already runs.

Developer APIs
Use cases

From a hunch to a defensible number.

A lake and its surrounding land seen from the air
A WASH programme shortlists borehole sites across a district in an afternoon

Dry or low-yield boreholes are usually a siting problem, not a drilling one — so a district WASH team layers geology, land cover and population against its own water-point records, then buffers the settlements with no working point within reach. The analysis runs in the interface against governed layers without a line of code, and the shortlist comes out as a map with its inputs attached — ready for the hydrogeologist to take into the field.

Population and settlement lights across Africa at night
A regional health team maps the settlements its facilities cannot reach

A regional health team holds a geocoded facility list and a population grid but no picture of what they mean together, so it draws service areas around every facility and reads the population back with zonal statistics. The output is a map and a list of the settlements left outside those service areas — the same method and the same inputs every time the question is asked.

Slope and hillshade around Mount Fuji, made by OrionAI
A mountain authority maps steep ground before it approves new trails

Trail and hut planning around a volcano or an alpine valley starts with one question: where is the ground too steep? Slope and hillshade come from the global elevation model without a line of code — around Mount Fuji, a quarter of the area is nearly flat while the steepest 8.5% sits on the volcano's flanks and gullies — and the classes stay data, ready to overlay on the proposed routes.

FAQ

Questions, answered.

What is Spatial Analytics?

The analysis surface of OrionGIS: buffer, overlay, proximity and zonal statistics run against catalogue layers in the browser, with every result returned as a mappable, exportable layer.

Do we need to know Python or SQL?

No. The operations run through the interface, and you can describe what you want in plain language — the AI assembles the analysis and it is verified before it publishes.

Can the same analysis be reproduced later?

Yes. Analyses run against versioned catalogue layers with provenance attached, so the same question asked in six months returns the same inputs and the same method.

Ready to answer it with data?

Ask your first spatial question and see the analysis assembled against governed data — verified, mapped and ready to share.