Setting Up Your First Business Project in GEO MAPID
Setting Up Your First Business Project in GEO MAPID
After obtaining a GEO MAPID license, the first essential step is to understand what is available within the platform and how to properly initiate a project. This understanding will help you work in a more structured and efficient manner, and prepare you for more advanced spatial analysis.
In this video, you will be introduced to the structure of the GEO MAPID interface, including the main sidebar, account management, and the project dashboard. This video is designed as an initial onboarding session so that you not only know where to click, but also understand the function of each component within the spatial analysis workflow.
What will you learn in this video?
In this video, you will learn:
- The main structure of the GEO MAPID sidebar and the function of each menu
- An introduction to core features such as:
- Insights (site selection & location scoring)
- Project dashboard
- Profile & license management
- Collaboration groups
- Data and publications from the MAPID Community
- How to view and manage plans/licenses, redeem codes, and platform version updates
- Language settings and recovery of deleted projects or layers
Creating your first project and layer
In addition to the interface overview, this video also covers the initial practical steps for using GEO MAPID, including:
- Creating a new project (personal or collaborative)
- Understanding the difference between Editor and Viewer
- Creating a new layer with different geometry types (point, line, polygon)
- Uploading data from various formats (CSV, Excel, GeoJSON, KML, ZIP, etc.)
Understanding Analysis & AI Features in GEO MAPID
You will also be briefly introduced to advanced features, such as:
- SINI AI for brainstorming, summarization, and data exploration
- AI Chat for analysis based on your existing datasets
- Spatial analysis toolbox (distance, area, elevation, radius, isochrone)
- Basemap settings and map display configuration
The discussion in this video serves as an introductory overview, designed to help you understand the context and workflow before moving on to more in-depth technical topics.
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Digitizing Market Opportunities
Course Contents
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Spatial Thinking for Business Growth
An introduction to the basic concepts of spatial thinking in a business context, including how location and spatial data support branch expansion, location-based marketing strategies, and outlet performance measurement.
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Setting Up Your First Business Project in GEO MAPID
An introduction to the GEO MAPID user interface.
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Digitizing Market Opportunities
Digitization of infrastructure data, such as industrial areas with multiple parcels, covering three types of geometries.
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Leveraging GEO MAPID’s Data for Market Analysis
A case study on importing demographic data (age groups, income levels) and population density to analyze potential markets for new branch locations.
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Smart Styling for Business Insights
Applying and continuing data styling on imported and displayed datasets.
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MAPID Toolbox for Business Decision Making
Preliminary survey using Area, Isochrone, and Buffer tools to calculate how many supermarkets are located within a 5 km radius.
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Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) for New Branch Location
SNJ use case for outlet expansion.
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Business Data Collection with FORM MAPID
Market survey form for KJPP.
