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DRIVING-TIME

POLYGONS

AROUND PINS


MORE THAN 80% OF ALL BUSINESS DATA CONTAINS DISTANCE AND LOCATION INFORMATION…
WHAT ARE YOU DOING WITH YOURS?

create drive time polygons around pins

ANALYZE YOUR LOGISTICS USING REAL TRAVEL TIME

Visualize Real-World Accessibility Faster

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Driving-time polygons show how far someone can travel from a location within a specific amount of time using actual roads and transportation networks. Unlike simple radius circles, driving-time polygons account for real travel conditions, helping you visualize realistic service coverage, customer accessibility, and operational reach.

This allows you to make better decisions about territories, facilities, service areas, staffing, and expansion opportunities based on how people actually travel.

How to Create Driving-Time Polygons Around Pins

Select any location on your map and define a drive-time threshold such as 10, 20, 30, or 60 minutes. Mapline automatically generates a polygon showing every area that can be reached within the selected travel time.

This provides a more accurate view of geographic accessibility than straight-line distance alone.

How to create drive time maps with Mapline

Analyze Service Coverage More Accurately

Visualize the true reach of stores, facilities, service teams, field technicians, or distribution centers using actual road networks. Driving-time polygons help identify coverage gaps and areas that may be underserved.

This supports more efficient resource allocation and territory planning.

Improve service reach with drive time polygon maps
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Pro Tip: Combine driving-time polygons with customer density maps, demographic overlays, and territories to identify underserved regions with strong demand and high growth potential.

Identify Accessible Customer Markets

Understand which customers, prospects, or communities can realistically reach your locations within a target travel time. Accessibility analysis helps prioritize marketing, expansion, and customer acquisition efforts.

This makes it easier to identify high-opportunity regions and improve market penetration.

Identify accessible customer markets with drive time analysis

Evaluate New Locations Before Expanding

Compare drive-time coverage across potential sites to determine which locations provide the greatest geographic reach. Driving-time analysis helps remove guesswork from site selection and facility planning.

This supports smarter, data-driven expansion decisions.

Analyze new locations with drive time polygons

Improve Territory and Workforce Planning

Use drive-time coverage to balance territories, assign field teams, and optimize operational regions based on realistic travel times. This helps reduce windshield time while improving service responsiveness.

The result is more efficient operations and better geographic coverage.

Improve workforce planning with drive time polygons
UNCOVER COVERAGE OPPORTUNITIES MORE CLEARLY
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Plot Locations
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VISUALIZE
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HEAT MAP
YOUR DATA AND
UNCOVER KEY PATTERNS
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CUSTOM TERRITORY
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WHICH TYPES OF Driving-Time Polygon Maps ARE THERE?

Service Area Coverage Maps

Visualize how far field teams, technicians, delivery drivers, or service crews can travel within a specific amount of time. Service area maps help identify coverage gaps, reduce response times, and improve operational planning.

This makes it easier to align resources with customer demand.

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Customer Accessibility Maps

Show which customers, prospects, or communities can realistically reach your locations within a defined drive time. Accessibility maps help evaluate customer convenience and uncover regions with strong growth potential.

This supports more effective marketing, site selection, and expansion planning.

Auto-assign locations with smart territories in minutes with Geo Mapping

Store and Facility Reach

Measure the real-world reach of stores, warehouses, offices, distribution centers, and other facilities using actual road networks. Driving-time polygons provide a more accurate picture of market coverage than simple radius circles.

This helps optimize facility placement and improve regional coverage strategies.

Easily visualize customer segments on your Mapline map

Territory Planning Maps

Use drive-time coverage areas as the foundation for territory design and workforce planning. Realistic travel-time boundaries help create more balanced territories while reducing travel inefficiencies.

This improves service consistency and operational performance across regions.

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Pro Tip: Overlay driving-time polygons with customer density maps and demographic data to identify high-demand regions that fall just outside your current coverage areas.

TURN TRAVEL DATA INTO BETTER DECISIONS

Improve Coverage and Resource Efficiency

Reduce Windshield Time Across Territories

Use driving-time polygons to understand how travel impacts daily operations and territory performance. Visualizing realistic coverage areas helps identify opportunities to reduce unnecessary travel and improve workforce efficiency.

This allows teams to spend more time serving customers and less time on the road.

Identify Underserved Markets Faster

Compare drive-time coverage against customer locations, demand patterns, and demographic data to uncover regions that fall outside your current reach. These insights help prioritize expansion efforts and resource investments.

This supports smarter growth strategies and improved market penetration.

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Improve Territory Planning Accuracy

Build territories based on realistic travel times rather than arbitrary geographic boundaries. Driving-time polygons help create more balanced territories that better reflect how teams actually operate.

This improves workload distribution and service consistency across regions.

Mapping government boundaries enhances your business strategy

Optimize Facility and Workforce Placement

Evaluate whether stores, warehouses, offices, or field teams are positioned to maximize coverage and accessibility. Drive-time analysis helps identify opportunities to relocate resources or add new locations where they will have the greatest impact.

This improves operational efficiency while reducing coverage gaps.

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Support Faster Geographic Decision-Making

Replace assumptions with visual travel-time analysis when planning coverage strategies, territory assignments, and expansion initiatives. Interactive drive-time maps make geographic opportunities and constraints easier to understand.

This helps teams make faster, more confident operational decisions.

Target audience segmentation is key to understanding your audience
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Pro Tip: Combine driving-time polygons with territories, customer density maps, and demographic overlays to identify profitable expansion regions while minimizing additional travel costs.

MAKE SMARTER GEOGRAPHIC COVERAGE DECISIONS



WHAT MAKES MAPLINE SO DIFFERENT

SIMPLEST
MAPPING SOLUTION
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Plot multiple locations from Excel in seconds. No coding, no setup—just copy, paste, and go. Mapline makes it effortless to build custom maps with pins that transform your spreadsheets into visual insights you can act on immediately. Plot multiple locations from Excel in seconds. No coding, no setup—just copy, paste, and go. Mapline makes it effortless to build custom maps with pins that transform your spreadsheets into visual insights you can act on immediately.
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MAP-BASED ANALYTICS
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Mapline isn’t just a map tool— it’s a full-suite analytics platform. Create a map, layer on territories, analyze performance, and automate workflows that help your business move faster. Every map you create becomes a data-powered decision engine. Mapline isn’t just a map tool— it’s a full-suite analytics platform. Create a map, layer on territories, analyze performance, and automate workflows that help your business move faster. Every map you create becomes a data-powered decision engine.

Don’t just take our word for it:

  • “If you’re an advertiser, you want to know the markets I’m in. So, what am I going to do? Print out a spreadsheet? No, of course not. I’m going to use Mapline.”
    – Sam Anthony, Your News
  • “I’m able to get a very complex, very deep and profound analysis.”
    – Juan Hernández, RE/MAX
  • “Thank you Mapline for such an AMAZING program that is saving us money and building confidence in our future growth!”
    – Lydia Rogers, Greenworks Commercial
  • “When people see it, they believe it. I show potential affiliates the map to start, just to show them how many markets we’re in and how we’re expanding.”
    – Sam Anthony, Your News
What is a driving-time polygon?

A driving-time polygon is a map layer that shows every area reachable from a location within a specified amount of driving time. Unlike radius circles, driving-time polygons follow actual roads and transportation networks to provide a more realistic view of accessibility.

How do driving-time polygons work?

Mapline analyzes road networks and travel routes to generate a boundary around a location based on a selected drive time, such as 10, 20, 30, or 60 minutes.

What is the difference between a radius circle and a driving-time polygon?

Radius circles measure straight-line distance in all directions. Driving-time polygons measure real travel times using actual roads, making them more accurate for operational planning and coverage analysis.

Why are driving-time polygons important?

Driving-time polygons help visualize realistic service coverage, customer accessibility, workforce reach, and market opportunities based on how people actually travel.

Can I create multiple driving-time polygons on one map?

Yes. Generate drive-time polygons around multiple stores, facilities, service centers, or operational hubs to compare coverage areas and identify gaps or overlap.

Can I combine driving-time polygons with other map layers?

Yes. Driving-time polygons can be layered alongside territories, customer density maps, demographic overlays, heat maps, routes, administrative boundaries, and customer locations.

How can driving-time polygons improve territory planning?

Drive-time analysis helps create more balanced territories by accounting for real travel times instead of relying solely on geographic distance or administrative boundaries.

Can I use driving-time polygons for site selection?

Yes. Driving-time polygons help evaluate potential store, warehouse, office, or facility locations by showing how much geographic coverage each site can provide.

Can I identify underserved regions using drive-time maps?

Yes. Compare existing coverage areas against customer locations, population data, and demand patterns to identify regions that may require additional resources or facilities.

Do I need GIS experience to create driving-time polygons?

No. Mapline allows you to generate interactive driving-time polygons using simple no-code workflows.

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