Catchments Help Guide

Create catchment areas around locations such as stores, depots or field team using a hand-drawn shape, a radius or a travel time

Catchments Help Guide

Create catchment areas around locations such as stores, depots or field team using a hand-drawn shape, a radius or a travel time

Creating a project

A project is used to group together a collection of map layers that have been put together in order to fulfil a specific objective. The following instructions are a step by step guide showing how to create a new project, name the project and save it so that it is ready to add layers to and is available for future use.

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Opening an existing project

How to open and save an existing project within Geoplan mapping software.

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Importing radial catchments data to the map

Add multiple Catchments to the map by importing data from a spreadsheet.

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Creating travel time catchments

Use the following instructions to create your own travel time catchment areas on the map.

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Editing a catchment boundary manually

Manually edit your catchment boundaries with Geoplan mapping software.

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Rename a catchment layer

Control the name and appearance of the layer, as well as the data associated with it

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Changing the name of an individual catchment

Use the following steps to rename your catchment labels.

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Changing the colour of catchments

Use the Design and Build tools to change the appearance of your catchments in Geoplan mapping software

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Finding out what features fall within your catchments

Use the analyse tools to analyse the distribution of data within your catchments.

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Finding the distance of features from catchment centres

Use the calculate distance tools to work out the distance by road, straight line or travel time from the centre of your catchments to all your points within each catchment.

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Using the Share tool

Share a project with other people who do not have access to Geoplan mapping software.

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Exporting catchments

Export your catchment data from Geoplan mapping software

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Printing a map with a Google map base

Create a PDF using the printing and reporting tools.

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Printing a map with an OSM map base

Create high resolution detailed PDFs using the OSM printing capabilities within Geoplan mapping software

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