Creating Time or Distance Buffers for a Table - MapInfo_Pro - 2023

If you have an event at multiple nearby locations and you want to determine which customers are within a particular driving distance or driving time, use the Driving Regions service to display this data on a map.

To create time or distance buffers for a table:

1. Open the table that contains the points for which you want to determine the driving distances or driving times. Make this layer editable.
2. On the SPATIAL tab, in the Create group, on the Regions list, click Convert to Regions, and Drive Regions (Table).
   
   

   

   
   
3. Use the Create driving regions using objects from table drop-down list to select the table that contains the driving region points.
4. Use the Store results in table drop-down list to select the table in which you want to store the results. Click Next to continue.
   • If you select a table name in the Store results list, the Create Driving Regions dialog box displays.
   • If you select <New> to create a new table, the New Table Structure dialog box displays so you can select the basic table options for the new table.

     Click Create to display the New Table Structure dialog box. Add fields to the new table to hold the requested information and click Create. The Create New Table dialog box displays. Enter the name for the table you are creating and select the path in the fields provided. Then click Save to display the Create Driving Regions dialog box.

     
     

     

     
     

     The options in this dialog box are the same as in the previous section.

5. Select the driving region options you want for this request. Click Next to continue. See Using Driving Region Buffers to Display Data for detailed descriptions of these fields. The Data Aggregation dialog box displays.
6. Do one of the following:
   • Highlight the field you want to place the new data into and select the Drive Value option to put the drive value associated with the resulting geometry into the selected (numeric) column.
   • Highlight the field you want to place the new data into and select the Drive Unit option to put the drive unit for the resulting geometry into the selected (character) field.
7. Click OK to begin the driving region processing.

Then the driving regions that you specified display.

Driving Region Results (Table) Non-Overlapping Regions

Driving Region Results (Table) Overlapping Regions