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Spatial data products and layers

Ready-made and custom layers for demand, access, risk and infrastructure, delivered as files, tiles or API.

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Layers are ready-made, maintained datasets that answer the questions most companies ask about places: how many people live there, how much they are likely to spend, how long it takes to reach a shop or a clinic, and how often the area floods. Each layer records its sources, its licence terms and when it was last refreshed.

You can license a single layer for one city, a family of layers for a country, or call them through an API from your own systems. The same layers sit inside every Kubinu application, so what you buy as data also powers the tools.

What's inside · 9 offerings

Each one built to answer a question someone has to decide.

BASE

Base layers

The skeleton of the map: buildings, roads, places, addresses, boundaries, terrain.

Layers in this family

Building footprints: outline of every building. Building polygon, refreshed every 6 to 12 months.
Road network: routable roads with surface and class. Road line, refreshed every 6 months.
Settlement extents: where towns, villages and hamlets are. Polygon and 100 m grid, refreshed yearly.
Administrative and service boundaries: states, districts, wards, enumeration areas and client territories. Polygon per level, updated when boundaries change.
Points of interest: shops, markets, schools, clinics, banks, places of worship. Point, refreshed quarterly.
Address and geocoding index: places people write in addresses, linked to coordinates. Point and building, updated continuously.
Elevation and slope: height of the ground and how steep it is. 30 m grid, does not change.
Rivers and catchments: waterways, catchment areas and flow paths. Line and polygon, does not change.

How it is delivered: Files, map tiles or API, licensed per layer and area.

POP

Population

How many people live where, and in what kind of buildings.

Layers in this family

Population grid: estimated residents per cell. 100 m grid; H3 resolution 8, refreshed yearly.
Building use: residential, commercial, mixed or other. Building polygon, refreshed yearly.
Population by age and sex: children, women of reproductive age, older people. 100 m grid, refreshed yearly.

How it is delivered: Files, map tiles or API, licensed per layer and area.

DEM

Demand

Where spending power and customers are likely to be.

Layers in this family

Consumer demand index: relative likely spending per area. H3 resolution 8, refreshed yearly; monthly with client data.
Relative wealth proxy: relative wealth between neighbourhoods. About 2.4 km cells, downscaled to H3 resolution 8, refreshed yearly.
Retail density and competition: outlets by category per area. H3 resolution 8, refreshed quarterly.
Footfall proxy: where people are likely to pass and gather. H3 resolution 9, refreshed quarterly.

How it is delivered: Files, map tiles or API, licensed per layer and area.

ACC

Access

How far people are, in minutes, from what they need.

Layers in this family

Travel time engine: minutes to the nearest chosen facility, by road and on foot. 100 m grid, updated when roads update.
Health facility access: travel time to the nearest clinic and hospital. 100 m grid, refreshed yearly.
School access: travel time to the nearest school by level. 100 m grid, refreshed yearly.
Financial access points: branches, ATMs and agents, and time to reach them. Point and 100 m grid, refreshed quarterly.
Market access: travel time from farms and villages to markets and towns. 100 m grid, refreshed yearly.

How it is delivered: Files, map tiles or API, licensed per layer and area.

RISK

Risk

Floods, drought, heat, terrain hazards and security.

Layers in this family

Flood exposure: areas that flood and how often. 30 m grid, refreshed yearly; within days of an event.
Rainfall and drought: rainfall totals and anomalies against the long-term average. About 5 km grid, refreshed monthly or dekadal.
Heat stress: hot days and temperature anomalies. About 9 km grid, refreshed monthly.
Erosion and landslide susceptibility: ground likely to wash out or slide. 30 m grid, refreshed yearly.
Security incidents: reported incidents by area and period. Point and district, refreshed weekly.

How it is delivered: Files, map tiles or API, licensed per layer and area.

Earth observation

What satellites see: land cover, vegetation, water, change.

Layers in this family

Land use and land cover: cropland, forest, built-up, water, bare and other classes. 10 m grid, refreshed yearly.
Vegetation health: greenness and its change through the season. 10 m grid, refreshed every 5 to 16 days.
Built-up change: new buildings and cleared land since a chosen date. 10 m grid and building polygon, refreshed quarterly.
Forest and tree cover loss: where forest was lost, and when. 10 to 30 m grid, refreshed quarterly.
Surface water: rivers, lakes and seasonal water. 10 to 30 m grid, refreshed monthly.

How it is delivered: Files, map tiles or API, licensed per layer and area.

ECON

Economic activity

Signals of trade and growth.

Layers in this family

Night-time lights: brightness at night as a sign of activity and electrification. About 500 m grid, refreshed monthly.
Business activity: shops, kiosks and signage seen from the street. Point, refreshed quarterly.
Land and property value proxies: relative value of land and buildings. H3 resolution 9, refreshed quarterly.

How it is delivered: Files, map tiles or API, licensed per layer and area.

INFRA

Infrastructure

Power, connectivity and energy potential.

Layers in this family

Electricity grid: known and likely grid lines and substations. Line and point, refreshed yearly.
Mobile network infrastructure: cell towers and likely coverage. Point and 100 m grid, refreshed quarterly.
Solar potential: solar resource for power planning. Grid as published, does not change.
Rooftop solar and generators: solar panels and generator sets visible from above. Point, refreshed yearly.

How it is delivered: Files, map tiles or API, licensed per layer and area.

AGRI

Agriculture

Fields, crops and their condition, plot by plot.

Layers in this family

Field boundaries: outline of each farm field. Field polygon, refreshed each season.
Crop type: which crop is on each field. Field polygon and 10 m grid, refreshed each season.
Crop condition: how each field compares with a normal season. Field polygon, refreshed every 5 to 10 days.
Plot deforestation check: whether a plot lost forest after 31 December 2020. Plot polygon, refreshed on demand and quarterly.

How it is delivered: Files, map tiles or API, licensed per layer and area.

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