Export Trade Areas

Easily integrate your GIS site analysis with your third party data visualization tools, as GIS allows you to export your trade areas in Tableau® or Shapefile format.

Follow these steps:

  1. Create you Retail Target Map as usual.

  2. Click the Save icon.

  3. In the Save window deselect Save Project and select Export Trade Areas.

  4. Select either Export for Tableau or Export as Shapefile.

  5. Message displays advising "Creating your trade areas export."

  6. The file downloads to your browser's default location.

    NOTE:  Copies of the file may also be found in My Projects, with the default name Trade Area File. Click on the Action icon to download.

  7. Tableau files are provided as comma delimited (.csv) files and contain the following column headings:

  • Feature ID

  • LONGITUDE

  • LATITUDE

  • POINTORDER

  • POLYGON NUMBER

  • Site ID

  • Site Name

    For guidance on how to upload file into Tableau please refer to their video tutorial on polygon maps.

  1. The Shapefile exports as a compressed file and contains:

  • .shp: shape format; the feature geometry itself

  • .shx: shape index format; a positional index of the feature geometry to allow seeking forwards and backwards quickly

  • .dbf: attribute format; columnar attributes for each shape, in dBase IV format