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Frequently Asked Questions
DynaCarto brings together 10 powerful geospatial analyses:HeatmapHotspot — Getis-Ord Gi*Cluster AnalysisAnomaly AnalysisProximity & CoverageIsochrone AnalysisLocation AllocationSuitability / Best Location AnalysisNearby Places / POI SearchData MountainsTogether, these tools support a wide range of location-based business and planning decisions.
Heatmap Analysis visually shows where activity or data density is concentrated.Hotspot Analysis evaluates whether concentrations of high or low values are statistically significant using spatial statistics such as Getis-Ord Gi*.Heatmaps are excellent for rapid visual exploration, while hotspot analysis provides deeper statistical insight.
Yes. DynaCarto does not limit you to the automatically generated cluster result.After clusters are created, you can interact directly with the map and drag & drop individual locations between neighboring clusters. This allows you to refine automatically generated groups based on real-world business knowledge, operational requirements, territory rules, or local conditions.Automatic intelligence when you need it. Human control when it matters.
Isochrone Analysis shows the geographic areas that can be reached from a location within a selected travel time or travel distance.DynaCarto supports different travel modes including:Car · Motorcycle · Bicycle · PedestrianIt is particularly useful for accessibility, service coverage, healthcare planning, retail planning, logistics, and site selection.
Location Allocation helps determine how demand points should be assigned to facilities and which facility configuration can provide better overall service.Analyses can consider:Straight-line distanceTravel distanceTravel timeIt can support facility planning, distribution networks, healthcare services, retail networks, logistics, and territory optimization.
Suitability Analysis helps identify the best locations by evaluating multiple decision criteria and their relative importance.Candidate locations can be scored and compared using factors such as demand, accessibility, competition, population, infrastructure, cost, or other business-specific criteria.The result provides an easy-to-understand suitability ranking from lower to higher potential.
POI Search helps discover relevant places and services geographically.You can search for places:Around a LocationFind nearby businesses, services, facilities, restaurants, hotels, gas stations, shops, and other points of interest.Along a RouteDiscover useful places located along a selected journey or operational route.
DynaCarto can support location-based decisions across many industries, including:Retail & Store NetworksHealthcareLogistics & DistributionField ServicesReal EstateBanking & FinanceTelecommunicationsSales & MarketingPublic ServicesUrban PlanningAny organization working with customers, facilities, demand, assets, incidents, or other geographically distributed data can benefit from spatial intelligence.
Yes. Several DynaCarto analyses can be combined for site-selection workflows.For example:Cluster Analysis → Discover where demand is concentratedProximity & Coverage → Evaluate existing coverageIsochrone → Understand real-world accessibilitySuitability Analysis → Rank potential locationsLocation Allocation → Optimize the facility networkThis creates a powerful end-to-end location planning workflow.
DynaCarto is designed for a different experience.Traditional GIS platforms can be extremely powerful but often require specialized knowledge, complex workflows, and desktop environments. DynaCarto focuses on delivering a broad range of practical spatial intelligence capabilities through an accessible, mobile-first experience.For many business and operational location decisions, users can move from raw data to actionable geographic insights without building a traditional desktop GIS workflow.
DynaCarto combines an unusually broad range of spatial analysis capabilities within a single mobile application.Instead of using separate tools for mapping, geocoding, clustering, accessibility, location optimization, suitability, POI discovery, and statistical spatial analysis, DynaCarto brings these capabilities together in one intuitive workflow.Import. Map. Analyze. Understand. Decide.Advanced spatial intelligence—directly from your mobile device.
An algorithm identifies spatially logical groups, but real-world territories may also depend on factors that are not fully represented in geographic coordinates.For example, you may need to consider:existing salesperson responsibilitiesoperational boundarieslocal knowledgecustomer relationshipsadministrative areasworkload balancephysical barriers or access conditionsDynaCarto allows analytical results to become a practical business solution, rather than forcing users to accept an algorithmic result without adjustment.
Yes. Cluster assignments can be adjusted interactively from the map.A location can be selected and dragged to a neighboring cluster, allowing users to visually refine the resulting geographic structure without rebuilding the entire analysis from scratch.This is particularly useful for Sales Territory Design, service areas, customer segmentation, and operational planning.
DynaCarto is designed to make spatial analysis useful beyond the person performing the analysis.Depending on the analysis and available export options, results can be shared through formats such as:Interactive map viewsShareable map linksExcel exportsGeoJSON exportsPDF analysis reportsThis makes it easier to communicate results with colleagues, customers, managers, or other decision-makers.
Where interactive sharing is available, an analysis can be presented through a shareable map experience so recipients can explore the geographic result without needing to reproduce the analysis themselves.Shared experiences can include the map, analytical layers, legends, and relevant result information.For security and controlled distribution, shared links may also use time-limited access and other sharing restrictions.
A DynaCarto credit represents a measurable unit of data processing.For address-based processing, 1 credit corresponds to 1 address processed through geocoding.For example:100 addresses = 100 geocoding creditsThis makes usage easy to understand and allows users to clearly see how their available processing allowance is being consumed.
No. DynaCarto's prepared demonstration and sample datasets are designed to let users explore larger analyses without consuming their own data-processing allowance.Credits are intended primarily for processing the user's own uploaded data.This means you can explore DynaCarto's analytical capabilities using example datasets before applying the same workflow to your own locations.
Smart AI Geocoding helps transform real-world address information into geographic locations that can be mapped and analyzed.The goal is to reduce the manual preparation traditionally required before performing spatial analysis and make location intelligence accessible directly from an Excel-based workflow.
No.Depending on the analysis, DynaCarto can work with different geographic accessibility measurements including:Straight-Line Distance · Travel Distance · Travel TimeThis is especially important for analyses such as Location Allocation, Proximity & Coverage, and Isochrone Analysis, where real-world accessibility can be more meaningful than simple geometric distance.
Yes. Many DynaCarto workflows are designed around scenario evaluation.For example, users can compare:alternative facility locationsdifferent travel-time thresholdsdifferent distance assumptionssuitability criteria and weightsalternative cluster structuresdifferent facility selectionscoverage scenariosThis helps users move from a single map result toward scenario-based spatial decision-making.
Yes—and this is one of DynaCarto's strongest capabilities.A single business question may require several analyses.For example:Cluster AnalysisDiscover where demand is concentrated.↓Proximity & CoverageDetermine whether existing facilities adequately cover that demand.↓Isochrone AnalysisUnderstand real-world accessibility.↓Suitability AnalysisIdentify promising new locations.↓Location AllocationDetermine how facilities should optimally serve demand.DynaCarto therefore supports a complete location intelligence workflow, rather than treating every analysis as an isolated tool.
DynaCarto is designed around interactive spatial analysis.Users can explore results directly on the map, inspect locations, zoom and pan, review legends and analytical layers, and—where supported by the analysis—interactively modify or investigate results.The goal is not simply to generate a map, but to allow users to explore the reasoning behind the result.
A standard map tells you where things are.DynaCarto helps you understand:Where are they concentrated?Which locations belong together?What is unusually high or low?What can be reached in 20 minutes?Where are coverage gaps?Which facility should serve which customers?Where is the best location for expansion?That is the difference between mapping and spatial intelligence.
DynaCarto focuses on bringing advanced spatial intelligence into a modern mobile-first experience.Instead of requiring users to build complex desktop GIS workflows, DynaCarto combines data import, Smart AI Geocoding, interactive mapping, spatial analysis, visualization, and decision support directly on a mobile device.Advanced GIS intelligence. Without the traditional GIS complexity.
No. DynaCarto is a spatial intelligence and geospatial analysis application, not a last-mile route optimization platform.If your goal is to optimize multi-stop delivery or service routes, manage stops, reduce travel distance, or improve last-mile operations, you can use DynaRoute, the dedicated mobile last-mile route optimization product from the same company.Think of the two products as complementary:DynaCarto → Understand WHERE and WHYDynaRoute → Optimize HOW to GET THEREDynaCarto focuses on spatial patterns, accessibility, coverage, site selection, facility allocation, and geographic decision-making, while DynaRoute focuses on operational route optimization.
Google Maps is primarily designed to help people find places, explore locations, obtain directions, and navigate from one place to another. Google Maps Platform also provides developers with APIs for maps, places, routing, route optimization, and isochrones.DynaCarto serves a different purpose: it is a ready-to-use mobile spatial analysis application.Instead of simply asking:“Where is this place?”or“How do I get there?”DynaCarto helps answer questions such as:“Where are my customers concentrated?”“Which areas are statistically significant hotspots?”“Which customers naturally belong together?”“Which areas are underserved?”“How far can this facility reach in 20 minutes?”“Which facility should serve each demand point?”“Where is the best location for my next facility?”DynaCarto combines analyses such as Heatmap, Hotspot, Cluster, Anomaly, Proximity & Coverage, Isochrone, Location Allocation, Suitability, POI Search, and Data Mountains into one mobile analytical workflow.Google Maps helps you navigate the world.DynaCarto helps you analyze it.
Mapbox is primarily a location technology platform for developers. It provides APIs and SDKs for maps, navigation, search, geocoding, routing, isochrones, optimization, and other location services that developers can integrate into their own applications.DynaCarto is different because it is a finished mobile spatial intelligence application designed for end users.With Mapbox, an organization typically uses APIs, SDKs, and development tools to build its own location-based solution.With DynaCarto, the analytical environment is already built. Users can import their data, geocode locations, visualize them, select an analysis, configure parameters, and interpret results directly from their mobile device.For example:Excel → Smart AI Geocoding → Map → Cluster Analysis → Isochrone → Suitability → DecisionMapbox provides powerful building blocks for creating location applications; DynaCarto provides a ready-to-use analytical experience.Mapbox helps developers build location technology.DynaCarto helps users apply spatial intelligence.
CartoVista is a cloud-based web mapping and data visualization platform focused on creating interactive maps, presentations, sharing geographic information, collaboration, and communicating spatial data. Its platform also includes spatial-analysis capabilities.DynaCarto has a different product philosophy.DynaCarto is designed specifically as a mobile spatial analysis application, allowing users to perform advanced analytical workflows directly from a smartphone or tablet.Its focus is not only on presenting geographic information but on performing decision-oriented analyses such as:Cluster AnalysisGetis-Ord Gi* Hotspot AnalysisAnomaly DetectionProximity & CoverageIsochronesLocation AllocationSuitability AnalysisPOI Searchand other spatial-intelligence workflows.CartoVista is particularly oriented toward cloud mapping, visualization, presentation, and sharing, while DynaCarto emphasizes mobile-first spatial analysis and decision support.CartoVista helps organizations communicate geographic information.DynaCarto puts spatial analysis directly in your hands.
CARTO is an enterprise cloud-native GIS and spatial analytics platform designed for large-scale data environments. It provides visualization, application development, AI capabilities, and hundreds of low-code spatial-analysis components, with strong integration into cloud data warehouses such as BigQuery, Snowflake, Redshift, and Databricks.DynaCarto addresses a very different use case.DynaCarto is a mobile-first, ready-to-use spatial intelligence application designed to make commonly needed advanced geospatial analyses accessible without requiring an enterprise GIS environment, cloud data warehouse, development project, or complex analytical infrastructure.A business professional can move from:Excel → Geocoding → Mapping → Spatial Analysis → Decisiondirectly from a mobile device.CARTO is designed for organizations that require enterprise-scale geospatial infrastructure, development, analytics, and massive datasets.DynaCarto is designed for professionals who want focused spatial intelligence, mobility, simplicity, and fast decision-making.CARTO provides an enterprise geospatial platform.DynaCarto provides spatial intelligence in your pocket.
No. These products solve different problems and, in some cases, can even complement one another.DynaCarto's objective is not to replace mapping infrastructure, developer platforms, or enterprise GIS environments.Its strength is bringing a carefully selected set of powerful spatial analyses together inside an accessible mobile application, so users can move rapidly from raw location data to actionable geographic insight.Map your data. Analyze the pattern. Understand the opportunity. Make the decision.Advanced spatial intelligence—directly from your mobile device.
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