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Prepare GIS Files

  • GIS files that are correctly designed and exported from your GIS software will become active zones in CrowdFiber.

  • GIS files that are incorrectly designed and exported from your GIS software will create errors and unable zones in CrowdFiber.

    This step will make sure your GIS files are ready to be successfully imported into CrowdFiber.

How to Avoid Upload Errors

Exported Files Requirements

  • Do not use arcs in your drawing. Simplify your polygons to maximize your platform's performance.
    • The use of arcs will result in the creation of excess vertices that will slow down the performance.
  • Files must be exported in a polygon format. LineString files will not create valid zones.
  • Max GIS file size: 2.0Mb.
  • Max file size CSV: 25Mb.
  • Zones cannot exceed 50,000 vertices in a single polygon.
  • File names must be one string of characters. Use hyphens or underscores to create spaces.

Upload Multiple Zones with a Single GIS File

  • Place each zone on a unique layer in your GIS file (if a zone contains multiple polygons, place all polygons associated with the zone on the same layer).

    Each layer in your GIS File can be turned into a unique zone in CrowdFiber.

    Drawing Requirements

    • Polygons must encompass the rooftops (not mailboxes) of an address for CrowdFiber software to import an address into a service area.
    • Do not include Lines nor Points. Nothing can exist in your files other than polygon boundaries.
    • Adding a 500' buffer to your polygons that only outlines the roads in your service areas will capture geo-coordinates of most addresses in your service areas.
    • Polygon rings must close: all polygons must be closed shapes.
    • Multiple polygons can be included in a single service area/layer. The polygons, however, cannot overlap.
    • Lines within a single polygon or single zone cannot intersect. The boundaries of your shapes cannot touch, overlap, or cross.

    • Rings that define holes in a service area should exist inside rings that define a shape’s exterior boundaries (rings cannot touch other rings except at a point).

      Independent zone records can overlap.

      Vertices within a single zone record cannot overlap.

Uploading Zones In Bulk

  • Place each unique zone on a unique layer in your GIS file.

Part 1) Save Your GIS File in a Polygon Format

  • To avoid errors in the creation of your zones, it is critical to save your service areas in a polygon format.

    • LineString is not a usable file format in CrowdFiber.

Part 2) Export It As One of The Following File Types:

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