AI assistant
Learn Felt and build maps with Felt AI. Ask it to find data, run analysis and SQL, style layers, or create dashboards.
Ask Felt AI to explain Felt, find data, analyze it, or change your map. It shows each step as it works. Click Felt AI (the sparkle icon) in the toolbar at the top right of the map, between Comment and Share, or press Shift+Cmd+K (Mac) or Ctrl+Shift+K (Windows). Enter your request and press Enter.
Learn Felt with Felt AI
Felt AI uses the help center to explain tasks and guide you through them on your map, such as "Help me make my first map." Ask it to explain its changes as you go. For more prompts, see Learn as you go.
Who can use Felt AI
Felt AI needs a seat but no setup. Workspace admins can't turn it off. If you don't have a seat, click Request in the Felt AI panel to ask an admin. See Seats and viewers.
Viewers and people using a public link or embed can't use Felt AI, but they see its changes to the map.
Requests use the workspace's shared monthly Felt AI credits. At the limit, Felt AI stops taking new requests until credits reset or an admin buys more usage. See Plan usage.
What Felt AI can do
Enter @ in the prompt box to choose a layer or source. Felt AI also sees your selection, such as a polygon you drew, so you can ask about "the selected area".
Find and add data
Felt AI looks for data in this order and stops at the first match:
Layers already on the map
Your workspace's Felt Servers
Your workspace's connected data sources, such as databases and buckets
The Global Library
A curated catalog of public GIS services, ArcGIS Online, ArcGIS Hub, and USGS 3DEP elevation data
Felt AI doesn't search the web. When it can't find data, it says where it looked and suggests alternatives. It can also add data from a URL.
Analyze and query data
Felt AI runs buffers, joins, and other spatial analysis and adds the results as layers. A result layer doesn't update when its inputs change: ask Felt AI to rerun the analysis, or use a SQL query on a source for a layer that stays current. Felt AI also answers questions in chat, such as a count or the elevation at a point, and runs read-only SQL on database sources.
Query map layers with SQL
Map layers have no SQL editor. Describe the query, such as a join or a group-by, and Felt AI writes and runs the SQL. To see the SQL, expand the steps and click Result on a step.
Travel-time areas
Available on the Business and Enterprise plans. Compare plans
Ask Felt AI for the area reachable in a set time by car, bike, or on foot. See Spatial analysis.
Style layers and build dashboards
Felt AI styles layers by category or value, with heatmaps, H3 hexbins, labels, popups, and filters. It also adds dashboard components, such as a statistic, bar chart, or filter.
Edit data
Felt AI can calculate values from other columns, split a column, or make other bulk edits. For example, ask Felt AI to split values from a KML or KMZ file's description column into separate columns. It can also add or delete features, and add, rename, or delete columns. See Edit features.
Mark up and manage the map
Felt AI draws annotations, finds places by name or address, organizes layers, and exports the map as a PNG, JPG, or PDF.
Changes Felt AI makes to your map
Felt AI changes the map as it works, asking for approval only when your request is unclear. Everyone with access to the map sees the result.
Felt AI works on a copy of the map in your workspace when you have View or Contribute access, or when you're in view mode. If you have Edit access, click Edit this map instead before you send your request, and Felt AI works on the original.
Felt AI edits can't be undone. Before a large change, duplicate the map and turn off Sync on the copy's Felt Server layers, so data edits don't reach both maps. See How copies stay in step.
What Felt AI can't do
Felt AI can't:
Create a new map or work on another map. To create maps from an AI tool, use MCP integrations.
Accept files, images, or prompts over 10,000 characters. To add a file, upload it.
Refresh a layer, add comments, build print layouts, or invite people.
Felt AI reads a layer's columns before it queries or edits the layer. Still, check its results, especially column names, before you rely on them.
Felt AI conversations
Felt AI saves each conversation with its map. Conversations stay private unless you share them.
Reopen the panel to continue your latest conversation on the map.
To find an earlier conversation, open its map, click New chat, and select it under Recent chats.
To share one, click Copy link to this chat. People with map access can read it but not change it.
You can't delete or export a conversation. To keep a response, hover over it and click Copy.
Felt AI and your data
Felt AI runs on frontier models through Amazon Bedrock. Your data is never used to train models. Felt AI can access only what you can. See Security and privacy.
Felt AI in other editors
Available on the Business and Enterprise plans. Compare plans
Felt AI also drafts editable code in the Felt AI tab of the Extension editor, the custom HTML popup editor, and the SQL query editor. See Prompting tips.
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