Getting Started with Owl AI

Owl AI is GISOwl's built-in AI assistant. It understands spatial data and natural language, letting you analyze your maps, generate queries, build extensions, and populate feature popups — all by typing a prompt.

Opening Owl AI

Press Ctrl/Cmd + J or click the Owl AI icon in the toolbar to open the assistant panel. A text input appears at the bottom of the screen where you can type your request.

What Can Owl AI Do?

Spatial Queries

Ask questions like:

  • "Show me all parcels within 500 meters of a school"
  • "Which fire stations have the longest response times to the downtown area?"
  • "Calculate the total area of wetlands in the selected county"

Owl AI translates your question into a spatial SQL query, runs it against your map data, and highlights the results on the map.

AI Extensions

Build interactive widgets powered by AI. For example:

  • "Create a bar chart showing population by district"
  • "Add a radius search tool that lets users click a point and see all features within a custom distance"

Extensions are rendered as dashboard components and can be shared with the map.

AI Popups

Auto-populate feature popups with contextual information. When you enable AI popups on a layer, clicking a feature generates a summary based on its attributes and nearby features — no manual configuration required.

AI SQL Queries

If you prefer to write SQL but want AI assistance, Owl AI can generate, explain, and debug PostGIS-flavored SQL queries against your datasets. It understands your schema and suggests joins, spatial functions, and aggregations.

Usage Limits

Owl AI is available on all plans. Free plans include 50 AI requests per month. Pro and Team plans include 500 and unlimited requests respectively. See Billing for details.

Next Steps