Catchment Areas

With the analysis Catchment areas in the menu Territory organizationyou can analyze how much potential your locations have within certain distances. open up. In contrast to the analysis Distance zones the distribution of the potential around the locations will also be are taken into account.

The result representation in the map resembles a Target: It shows in which zones around the site there is a certain potential is opened up. Zones that are close to the site indicate, on the one hand, the following a territory with a high potential, on the other hand to a territory within the Territory well chosen location.

To evaluate the catchment areas, absolute or Use percentages. Absolute numbers are more suitable for the absolute Comparison of the territories among each other.

If percentages are used, the following meanings apply The catchment areas of the sites show that a certain percentage of the potential of the existing territory. This valuation variant is suitable for to the separate consideration of each territory.

Are the territories balanced according to their potential (i.e. ), there is hardly any difference between the two variants.

Creation of the analysis catchment areas

The analysis can be reached via the menu Territory organization > Analyses > Catchment areas. First, you are asked at which level or at which locations the catchment areas are to be calculated.

Alternatively, you can also insert the feed areas in the control window area organisation in the context menu of the area or location level under analyses.

Select data input and connect the data to the map

For your analysis, select the appropriate assignment between data and levels and confirm your selection.

Edit Properties

Immediately after inserting the analysis, the Properties on the right side of the program window open (default setting). The properties can be reopened at any time via the control window Content by double-clicking on the map layer Catchment areas.

Determine the colouring of the catchment areas

In this analysis, similar to the analysis surface coloring, the column to be analyzed can be selected. The default setting here is the data column area. Under Statistics you will find various indices for the selected column. The zones around the location can be colored here classified by forming classes with increasing distance to the location.

Comparability of territories

Choose between Global evaluation (absolute) or Territorial evaluation (percentage) to either compare the territories with each other or to display separate, district-related catchment areas.

Classified data evaluation

The creation of classes offers you numerous setting options. In addition to the number of classes or move-in areas, you can also define how the limit values of the classes are to be determined.

Determine the details of the analysis

In Details you define other (non-data-dependent) properties of the analysis.

Create tooltips for analysis

When crossing the colored areas on the map, you can display context-sensitive information about them.

Note: You can find out how to implement tooltips here.

The commands of the context menu

You can right-click on the analysis in the control window Content to open its context menu. The context menu provides actions that can be performed on this analysis.