# Spatial Workbench

## Spatial analytics built for BI teams

Transform business questions into actionable maps and insights with familiar tools and instant cloud scale.

## Bring your data. Bring your questions. Build the answers.

- **Enrich your data with FSQ datasets**  
  Easily join your data with pre-provisioned FSQ datasets, to enrich your geospatial analysis and uncover deeper insights.
- **Pre-provisioned geospatial compute**  
  Run your geospatial workloads on pre-provisioned Motherduck instances.
- **SQL workbooks**  
  Query, analyze, and transform geospatial data at scale with flexible, developer-friendly SQL workbooks.
- **Build dashboards**  
  Create custom dashboards to visualize query results and monitor spatial data trends, all without leaving your SQL environment.
- **Build interactive maps**  
  Render rich, interactive maps directly from your queries to explore spatial patterns and visualize complex geospatial relationships, built on top of [Kepler.gl](http://kepler.gl/).

## Key benefits of Spatial Workbench

### **Data to insights to shareable maps in minutes**  
Uncover complex patterns and insights from massive, location-rich datasets in moments with powerful compute and flexible analysis tools.

### **Analyst-friendly with a SQL first approach**  
Easily unlock the full potential of your data or use external datasets from FSQ Spatial H3 Hub, including [FSQ OS Places](https://opensource.foursquare.com/os-places/), to analyze and visualize insights – all in a single SQL workbench.

### Access to proprietary Kepler layers  
Accelerate scaled spatial insights using powerful indexing and rendering with proprietary [Kepler.gl](https://opensource.foursquare.com/kepler-gl/) layers, such as flow maps, for fast and actionable intelligence.

## Solve real-world problems

##### **Risk assessment**  
Analyze exposure to risks like flooding, wildfires, and other environmental hazards.

##### **Supply chain management**  
Optimize supply chains by analyzing routes, facility locations, and regional risk factors.

##### **Competitive intelligence**  
Map competitor locations and uncover spatial patterns to inform market strategy.

##### **Site selection**  
Identify high-potential locations with suitability, similarity, and proximity analysis.

##### **Customer insights**  
Enrich your first-party data with location intelligence to uncover deeper behavioral patterns.

##### **Infrastructure & asset management**  
Monitor and manage critical infrastructure to optimize maintenance and deployment.

## Pricing

#### **FSQ Spatial Workbench – Developer Plan**  
Free trial for 1 month with no subscription fee – only pay for the compute and storage you use.

##### Flexible compute options  
**MotherDuck**  
Cloud-native data warehouse built on DuckDB, designed for serverless, collaborative analytics.

##### **MotherDuck – Pulse**  
Perfect for ad-hoc analysis tasks  
$0.60/hr

##### **MotherDuck – Standard**  
Built to handle common workloads and transforms  
$2.40/hr

##### **MotherDuck – Jumbo**  
For larger workloads with intense transformations  
$4.80/hr

_Storage costs of $0.04/GB may apply_

## Compare FSQ Spatial capabilities

|  | **FSQ Spatial Studio** | **FSQ Spatial Desktop** | **FSQ Spatial Workbench** |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| **Pricing** | Free | $25 per month | $250 per month + compute usage |
| **Cloud Storage** | 1GB | 3GB | 5GB |
| **SQL Workbooks** | No | No | Yes |
| **Dashboards** | No | No | Yes |
| [**Kepler.gl**](http://kepler.gl/) **Foundation** | FSQ Kepler | OSS Kepler | FSQ Kepler |
| **Bring Your Own DB** | No | No | Coming soon |
| **Flow Map Layer** | No | Coming soon | Yes |
| **Cloud Native Geospatial Format Support** | Limited | Yes | Yes |

## All-in-one power

### FSQ Spatial Desktop  
Run advanced spatial analysis with open-source tools designed for scale. SQL-native functions, spatial joins, clustering, and indexing at your fingertips.

### FSQ Spatial H3 Hub  
Unlock the full power of your first-party data by seamlessly combining datasets using accurate hex-based spatial indexing.

### FSQ Spatial Studio  
Analyze and visualize complex geospatial datasets with layered maps, 3D visualizations, hex tiling, and dynamic spatial rendering.

### FSQ Open Source Places  
Access 100M+ high-accuracy POIs from our industry-leading open-source dataset, maintained by our advanced AI/ML models and the geospatial developer community.

## Get started with Foursquare Spatial Workbench  
Take your geospatial analysis to the next level. Get started now.