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I will repost a message that was posted a while back but nobody answered. I am having the same issue and looking for maybe a custom way of solving it. thanks.

<I need a little help in designing territories with MapPoint. I hope someone can help me (please).

I have imported customer data (Excel file) onto the map. I also created territories as they currently exist (manually). Now I want to select one of those territories and display the customer data records that exist in that territory.

Then I want to re-select a (variation or new) territory, and see the customer data in that territory.

The only way I have found to do this is to import the customer data, create the territory, then trace over the territory boundary with one of the drawing tools, right click (while the completed traced boundary is highlighted or selected) then export to excel to see the resulting customer data.

Is anyone aware of a simpler method? It sure would be nice to created the territory, then highlight it in the ledgend window and export the customer data that resides inside the territory without having to trace it.>

The only easier method I can think of would require a lot of work ! First, how often, how much, and over what area?

Also, what geographies are you building the territories on? Perhaps you could import those as shape objects using the Spatial Data Importer developer sample and use those instead of tracing them..

Eric

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I am drawing territories over the census tracks. I have a data set imported with all my customers. I combine a few tracks into one territory - now I want to do the what seems like the simple thing of exporting all the customers/pushpins that are within that territory.......not found a way yet. The only thing I can think is drawing a shape over the territory which is too time consuming.

What is the Spatial Data Importer ...an add on?

Thanks much