OrionAI works out densities, joins, buffers and overlays on your map

Changes since 2.8.0.

#New

• Spatial toolbox for OrionAI. In Map Studio, OrionAI can now carry out 16 kinds of analysis on the layers in your map: count points in areas (with density per km² and per 1,000 people), measure lines and areas within zones, summarise points on a hexagon grid, join by location, join by a shared name or code, buffer, clip, overlay, erase, merge, turn shapes into points, find the nearest feature and its distance, measure areas and lengths, calculate new fields and filter.
• True measurements anywhere. Distances are in metres and areas in km², measured on the Earth's surface, so a 5 km buffer is 5 km in Nairobi, Oslo or Santiago.
• Every result is a layer. Each step adds a new layer named in plain words (for example "Health facilities per km² by county"), which OrionAI then styles. You can save it, style it yourself or publish it, and a published layer records the step and the layers it came from.
• Clearer steps. Analysis steps show what they did, for example "Counted points in each area" or "Drew buffers around features".

#Improved

• Density maps finish. Requests such as "health facility density by county in Kenya" now complete with a density map instead of stopping because the counts could not be joined to the boundaries.
• Honest checks. OrionAI reports when features did not match (for example, names that did not join, or points outside every area), so you can trust or fix the result.