Key Terms and Concepts in Spatial Studio

Learn the key concepts and terminologies when working with Spatial Studio.

Projects

A project contains datasets, that are logically related to some intended usage. For example, a project might be named New England Sales Territories, or Sales Territories and Customers, or Ohio Airports and Counties. When creating a project, you should know the purposes for which you want to visualize and analyze spatial data in a geographic area. It represents a workspace that can be saved and reopened.

Datasets

A dataset is a collection of spatial features of a specific usage type and geometry type. For example, datasets might include Airports represented by polygon geometries, or Roadways represented by LRS line string geometries, or Accidents represented by point geometries.

Public Dataset

A public dataset is one with a GeoJSON endpoint that can be accessed without having to log onto the Spatial Studio first. A public dataset is always visible to all the Spatial Studio users and can be used in their projects.

Published Projects

A published project is a snapshot of the visualizations and analyses that a user has created in a project. It provides an easy way of sharing what users have created within their organization.

Public Published Project (PPP)

A public published project is a published project where all the datasets involved are public datasets, and the published project itself is also made public. You can embed the visualizations of a public published project in other web applications, or can be viewed standalone in a web browser, without having to log onto Spatial Studio server first.

Analysis

An analysis is typically one or more (spatial) operations performed on one or more datasets. The operation types and their parameters for an analysis are all stored as part of a project. The result of any analysis can be visualized, just like any other dataset.