Navi is Atlas's conversational AI agent. Open the chat panel inside any project and describe what you want — "find all wind farms within 5 km of a substation in Norway and style them by capacity" — and Navi uses Atlas's tools to do it. Navi can fetch data, filter, style layers, configure popups, build forms and interfaces, run workflows, and explain its work.
Navi is different from AI fields in the Data Table, which generate AI-driven values inside individual fields of a dataset.
Open Navi
Open the chat panel from the project's left sidebar. Type a request, hit return, and Navi starts a session.
You can mention specific datasets or layers in your message using @ to anchor the request to them.
What Navi can do
Navi invokes Atlas's tools on your behalf. The available tools include:
- Data tools — generate sample data, filter by attribute, filter by spatial relationship.
- Column tools — add columns to existing datasets.
- Styling — apply styles to layers and configure popups.
- Data extraction — get map features (buildings, roads, places) from Overture, find a location, fetch weather, population, census, traffic, or raster data for an area.
- Forms — create a form for an existing dataset and update form configurations.
- Workflows — update an existing workflow, execute a workflow, or inspect the schema of a workflow node.
- Interfaces — create widgets, inspect the current interface, delete sections or widgets, reset an interface.
- Analysis — aggregate and analyse data.
- Documentation — search Atlas docs and link to relevant articles.
Navi picks tools automatically based on your request. You don't choose them manually.
Thinking states
While Navi works, the chat shows its current state:
- Thinking — reasoning about your request before picking a tool.
- Planning — deciding what sequence of tools to run.
- Tool active — running a specific tool. The chat shows which one (e.g. "Filtering features", "Fetching map data") with a status icon.
- Processing — interpreting tool results before replying or running the next tool.
Each tool action appears as its own card in the conversation. Cards show the tool name, a status icon, and a brief result summary. Some actions are clickable — e.g. a "zoom to bounds" action card lets you replay the navigation.
Cancel a run
If Navi is taking too long or going in the wrong direction, click Cancel in the chat to stop the current run. Already-completed tool calls are kept in the conversation; in-progress tools are marked cancelled.
Give feedback
Each Navi message has thumbs-up and thumbs-down buttons. Use them to flag good or bad responses — feedback is sent to the team and used to improve the agent. Thumbs-down opens a small text input where you can describe what went wrong.
Sessions
Each conversation is a session, scoped to the current project. Coming back later resumes the session — your prior messages and tool history are still there.
Limits and notes
- Navi runs against the current project's data, so its reach is limited to datasets you can already see.
- Long-running operations (workflow execution, large data extractions) report progress in the tool card; cancelling cancels the run, not the underlying side effects from already-completed tools.
- Navi uses the same Atlas APIs as a human user; permissions and quotas apply identically.