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The Spatial Trade Area step builds a trade area — one or more concentric buffers, sized in real-world units — around each geometry. It is the equivalent of the Alteryx Trade Area tool’s fixed-radius mode and runs in the workflow engine.

  • Source Table / Output Table — the input geometries and where the result is written.
  • Geometry column — the WKT geometry column to build around.
  • Radii — a single radius, or comma-separated concentric radii (e.g. 5,10,25).
  • Units — the real-world unit the radii are expressed in (miles, km, meters, feet).
  • Output column — the name of the output geometry column.

The Columns tab maps the input columns to pass through onto the output.

The radii are converted from the chosen real-world unit to an approximate degree radius before buffering (a planar approximation), so a ground circle reads as a mild ellipse far from the equator.