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AudienceFor researchers

Spatly for researchers

A research dataset is often the finding, but a table of coordinates does not travel. Spatly turns a GeoJSON, a CSV or a feature service into an interactive map you can style by any field, filter, animate over time and publish, so the spatial pattern in the data becomes something a reader can explore rather than take on faith.

Classify by quantile or natural breaks, size points by a measure, extrude polygons into 3D where the range is large, and step a time filter to show change. Sources and licences sit on the page, and every chapter or view deep-links, so a citation points at exactly the state you mean. Publish the map for a paper's supplementary materials, or embed it on a lab site. The example below is a real published Spatly story on the global record of meteorite landings.

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Where meteorites fall, a story on 45,716 catalogued landings. A real published Spatly surface, not a screenshot.

OutcomesWhat you ship

Three things this team ships with Spatly

An explorable dataset map

Publish your data as a styled, filterable map so reviewers and readers can interrogate the spatial pattern themselves.

A time animation

Step a time filter across the data to show change, with the slider position saved as part of each map beat.

A deep-linkable figure

Every chapter and view has a stable link, so a citation or a caption can point at the exact state you describe.

Spatly for researchers.

Start from a basemap and a file, or open a story template and take it apart. No credit card to publish your first surface.

41.0082°N 28.9784°E · z 11.3 · ⟂ 0°