AI Extensions

AI Extensions let you create interactive widgets — charts, tools, and controls — directly on your map by describing what you want in plain English.

Creating an Extension

  1. Open Owl AI (Ctrl/Cmd + J).
  2. Describe the widget you want. For example: "Create a pie chart of land use categories" or "Build a slider that filters features by year."
  3. Owl AI generates the extension code and renders it as a dashboard component on your map.

Examples

Data visualization: "Show a bar chart of revenue by region from the sales layer."

Interactive tools: "Add a draw-a-polygon tool that calculates the total population inside the drawn area."

Layer controls: "Create a dropdown that lets users switch between the 2020 and 2024 census layers."

Comparison views: "Build a swipe tool to compare satellite imagery from January and July."

Editing Extensions

Click the Edit button on any extension to view and modify the generated code. Extensions are built with standard HTML, CSS, and JavaScript and have access to the GISOwl SDK for map interactions.

Sharing Extensions

Extensions are saved with the map and visible to anyone who has access. You can also export extension code to reuse in other maps.

Next Steps