How-to guide

How to see everywhere within 30 minutes of your depot

Map Pro draws drive-time areas by road - everywhere you can reach in 15, 30 or 45 minutes from a depot, a yard or a new site - counts how many of your locations fall inside each, and adds up who lives there from the 2021 Census.

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What you need

Step by step

1

Open Drive-time areas

Choose Analysis → Drive-time areas, or right-click the map and choose Drive-time area from here.

Open Drive-time areas - Map
2

Pick the times

Choose up to four times - 10 to 60 minutes - and how you travel: car, van or lorry, bike or walking. Start from home, the selected locations or a point you click.

Pick the times - Map
3

Draw the areas

Click Draw the areas. Each time is shaded on the map, nearest first.

Draw the areas - Map
4

Count what is inside

The panel shows how many locations sit inside each area. Export the areas as GeoJSON for other GIS tools.

Count what is inside - Map
5

See who lives there

Area insights adds up the 2021 Census for the area: people, households, ages, homes and cars (England and Wales).

See who lives there - Map

Tips

Frequently asked questions

Is it free?

Drive-time areas are part of Map Pro, a one-off £19.99 with a free 7-day trial. Map itself is free.

Where do the drive times come from?

From road routing on OpenStreetMap's road network, worked out on Metre2's server - your locations aren't stored there.

Does it work offline?

No - drive-time areas and routes need an internet connection. Everything else in Map works offline.

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