How to create a Destination area
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Below an example with the Travel distance overlay based on a school and pedestrian traffic.
How to create a Destination area:
- Have a project loaded in the editor and decide the area of interest of the Travel Distance overlay, a school in our case.
- Add an area and select to Adjust the area.
- Draw in the area around the school. Important: Ensure that the area overlaps the adjacent roads. In our example the area overlaps with roads east, west and south of the school.
- Apply the selection.
- Select its attribute tab on the Detail Panel.
- Under Add New Attribute, write the name of the Destination area attribute; for example ROUTING_AREA, and set its value to 1.
- Save the new attribute.
- Optionally adjust the area color; it will be used for the resulting overlay
- Open the Travel Distance Overlay and select the keys tab. Under the key Destination Area, select the attribute chosen attribute in step 3, in the example ROUTING_AREA. This ensures that the destination areas are identified using this attribute.
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School selected as example, the blue arrow is added for clarity
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Please note that the area overlaps all adjacent roads east, west and south of the school
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Added the attribute ROUTING_AREA to the Area.
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Setting the key for Destination Area to ROUTING_AREA.
Notes
- In case a grid is used to identify traversable cells, make sure that the destination areas overlap a traversable cell.



