The four pillars
Create, Load, Analyze, and Visualize — the four stages of all GIS, and how Geo-Intellisense delivers each agentically versus traditional GIS.
All GIS rests on four pillars — Create, Load, Analyze, Visualize. Geo-Intellisense is built around them and supports the full range of work — vector, raster, and remote sensing alike. A single request can touch one pillar or all four: you ask once, and the agents work through whichever it needs.
Traditional GIS vs Geo-Intellisense
| Pillar | Traditional GIS | Geo-Intellisense |
|---|---|---|
| Create | Hand-digitize features, geocode lists, and build geometry manually — tool by tool. | Describe it in plain English; the Spatial Agent plans, executes, and computes deterministic data — or use the draw tools to digitize directly on the map. |
| Load | Hunt for files, convert formats, fix projections, and wire up each connection. | Upload, paste a URL, or let the Data Agent fetch from MCP and open catalogs — reprojected and unified automatically, at any scale. |
| Analyze | Assemble tools, write scripts, manage runtimes, and run jobs on your own machine. | Ask in plain English; the Spatial Agent runs vector, raster, and remote-sensing analysis on server-side runtimes — you just get the answer. |
| Visualize | Hand-style layers, tune class breaks, and build legends one by one. | The Cartographer Agent produces presentation-ready maps automatically — choropleth, heatmap, 3D, time — ready to share or export. |
Create
Bring new data into existence from a description:
- Boundaries from a place or a drawn area.
- Points from a pasted list or a CSV with coordinates.
- Grids & tessellations such as H3 hexagons or fishnets.
- Derived geometry like buffers and isochrones.
- Samples and interpolated surfaces from existing data.
- New fields computed onto existing features.
Load
Open existing data from anywhere:
- Upload files and folders from your machine.
- Paste a service URL to connect to remote sources directly.
- Pull from authoritative catalogs — open data and MCP servers the Data Agent already knows.
Sources are brought into a single, consistent view, so they line up on the same map regardless of where they came from. (See Data & formats.)
Analyze
Turn data into answers:
- Proximity & buffers — what’s near what.
- Watershed delineation — catchments and flow.
- Spatial joins — relate features by location.
- Clip, dissolve, and aggregate — reshape and summarize.
- Hotspot detection — where things cluster.
- Raster analysis — terrain, surfaces, and map algebra.
- Remote sensing — imagery indices and change over time, from an open data catalog.
Visualize
Produce presentation-ready cartography automatically:
- Choropleths shaded by a value.
- Heatmaps and density surfaces.
- 3D extrusions and time animation.
- Auto-cartography — the Cartographer Agent reads a layer’s distribution and picks a sensible style, with a legend.