The Map Studio assistant finds all of Orion's open data

OrionGIS web 1.19.0Released 23 October 2026

Ask the Map Studio assistant for data and it now searches the whole Global Data Index, both hosted datasets and open data streamed live from publishers, and adds what fits straight onto your map.

Read the announcement: Ask Map Studio for data, and get the world's open data

Changes since 1.18.0.

#New

  • Open data in the Map Studio assistant. When you ask the assistant for data ("rivers in Kenya", "flood risk"), it now searches the whole Global Data Index by meaning, not only the datasets hosted on Orion. Open data from publishers loads onto the map as a live layer: features you can query, style and analyse, or raster imagery, limited to your current view for large datasets.
  • Credit travels with the data. Open-data layers carry the publisher and licence, and the assistant names them when it uses one.

#Improved

  • Better first maps. The assistant used to look in only the few hundred hosted datasets, so many requests found nothing suitable. With the full index it finds relevant data far more often. If the index search is unavailable, it falls back to the hosted catalogue, then to keyword search.