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:
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Create you Retail Target Map as usual.
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Click the Save icon.
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In the Save window deselect Save Project and select Export Trade Areas.
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Select either Export for Tableau or Export as Shapefile.
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Message displays advising "Creating your trade areas export."
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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.
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Tableau files are provided as comma delimited (.csv) files and contain the following column headings:
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Feature ID
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LONGITUDE
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LATITUDE
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POINTORDER
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POLYGON NUMBER
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Site ID
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Site Name
For guidance on how to upload file into Tableau please refer to their video tutorial on polygon maps.
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The Shapefile exports as a compressed file and contains:
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.shp: shape format; the feature geometry itself
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.shx: shape index format; a positional index of the feature geometry to allow seeking forwards and backwards quickly
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.dbf: attribute format; columnar attributes for each shape, in dBase IV format