Calculate isolines
The Calculate Isolines API allows you to determine areas reachable within specified time or distance limits. By considering factors such as road restrictions, traffic conditions, and travel mode, it generates isolines that outline accessible areas, supporting urban planning, logistics, and service accessibility applications. This API can be used for urban planning, real estate analysis, and accessibility studies by visualizing service reach, transportation options, or resources within a set timeframe or distance limit. By displaying these isolines on a map, users can assess travel reach within specific constraints, enhancing decision-making for site selection, service coverage, and resource allocation.
Use cases
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Assess healthcare accessibility through travel time isolines: Generate isolines to evaluate access to healthcare facilities from various neighborhoods based on travel times. Healthcare organizations can use this feature to identify underserved areas and make informed decisions about clinic locations or mobile health services, thereby improving community healthcare access.
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Analyze market reach for retail expansion using travel time isolines: Create isolines to represent customer access to retail locations based on travel times. Retail businesses can assess new store locations and understand customer demographics, using these visualizations to strategically expand and optimize sales potential.
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Optimize logistics and delivery zones with isolines: Generate isolines to define delivery zones based on time-sensitive logistics requirements. Logistics companies can visualize areas reachable within specific timeframes from distribution centers, improving route planning, operational efficiency, and timely deliveries.
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Plan tourism and recreational access with isolines: Visualize travel times from tourist attractions to nearby accommodations. Tourism boards can help travelers find convenient lodging options, promoting local businesses and enhancing the travel experience by displaying these isolines on a map.
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Improve emergency response planning through isolines: Generate isolines to assess response times from emergency service locations to various areas in a community. Emergency management teams can identify regions within critical response times, optimizing resource allocation to improve response during incidents.
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Analyze commuting patterns for workforce planning with isolines: Generate isolines to visualize commuting times and identify areas with high travel times. Businesses can use these insights for remote work policies or office relocations, enhancing employee satisfaction and productivity.
Understand the request
The request accepts parameters like Origin, Destination, and Thresholds for defining isolines. Optional parameters, such as Allow, Avoid, and TravelModeOptions, allow customization of isoline constraints. For more information, see the .
- Origin
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The starting point for isoline calculation in longitude and latitude.
- Thresholds
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Time or distance limits used to define the isoline boundary.
- TravelMode
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The mode of transport, such as car, pedestrian, or truck.
- OptimizeIsolineFor
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Optimization criteria, such as Accurate, Balanced, or Fast calculation.
- DepartureTime
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Time of departure, if specified, for calculating time-dependent isolines.
- ArrivalTime
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Time of arrival, if specified, for calculating time-dependent isolines.
- IsolineGranularity
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The maximum number of points and resolution of the isoline boundary.
Understand the response
The response includes isolines with properties like IsolineGeometryFormat, outlining the reachable area based on request parameters. .
- Isolines
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Calculated isolines with associated properties, including geometries and connections.
- Geometries
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List of geometries outlining the calculated isoline boundaries.
- Connections
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Connections between isoline geometries, including the geometry for each connection.
