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The place of origin analysis lists a lot of nearby suburbs. Can I confirm that if an a place of origin was large but from interstate, it should show up in this list? I think they’re a bit disappointed that they don’t have more interstate visitors.
The visitation analysis only shows visitation from within the same city, not interstate. HOWEVER the reason for this is that there are no Australian suburbs (other than airports)that have interstate visitors within the top 50 neighbourhoods. So I can confirm that Docklands does not have more interstate visitors than local visitors.
What happened to our Springly custom location? Since we received our new location the old one is no longer on the viewport when I open the log in anymore...
We've checked your account, and both locations are still available, however only the most recent custom location is linked to the Front Desk landing page (which may be where the confusion lies). The way to look up all your locations is using the 'Reports Menu' section of the "Insights Report" tool. Under the "Your customised reports" section, you will see both Springly and Greenvale, just below your saved public locations.
I know the custom locations are using the boundaries provided, but I was wondering if it's possible for the hot spots to have a more organic finish to the shapes rather than just being cut off.
Yes we understand this request, and I've had a lengthy discussion with our analysts around it. In short, this 'cutting' is analytically correct, and further smoothing would distort the results. Analytically, heatmaps need to be calculated on a regular 'step'. When an irregular shape is used (such as the polygons) we have to use latitude and longitude as this 'step'. which creates a rectangular shape boundary for analysis - along the lat/long steps. The effect of this 'cutting' is most pronounced when there is a highly active pocket close to the edge of the shape.
We have found a couple of errors in the maps, typo and a couple of beaches labelled incorrectly. Is it possible for these to be amended? I realise you are using a third-party map base so you may not have any control over the labels.
Unfortunately we can't directly control the labels on the base maps. We use Mapbox, which is powered by Open Street Map (OSM). Typically someone at your Council would be maintaining this to make sure it is correct, and providing OSM with the correct polygons. Looking into this result, it appears that OSM has Moffat Beach running the whole distance from Dicky Beach right down to the point. Once OSM is changed, then Mapbox will be refreshed within a couple of weeks, if not sooner.
It’s probably a long shot, but is it possible to show our centre boundaries on the maps?
Sorry! I wish we could say yes, but unfortunately we can't show you custom boundary outlines on the individual maps. In your custom locations you can see the data capture boundary if you click on the "about this report" bar at the top of each report. This will expand the section and show you the precise data capture area for the report.