Create a drivetime zone

1. On the map, select the point that you want to be the center of your drivetime zone.

   Note   You can select a place name, a business or attraction, a pushpin, a point on your route, or any other place on the map.

2. On the Tools menu, click Create drivetime zone.

3. In the minutes box, enter the number of minutes that you want your drivetime zone to be from the center point.

   Note   Depending on your system resources, a large drivetime zone (high number of minutes) may take several minutes to create.

4. To avoid obscuring the roads on your map, select the Draw drivetime zone behind roads check box.

5. To make your drivetime zone more visible on the map, select the Fill drivetime zone with solid color check box.

6. Click OK.

Note   Drivetime zones are an approximation based on the best available data. Factors such as road conditions, heavy traffic, and weather affect the actual distance that you can travel within a certain period of time.

Tip   To create a drivetime zone that has rings of different durations—for example, 14 minutes, 30 minutes, and 40 minutes—create a separate drivetime zone for each time period, starting with the largest and basing each on the same center point. (You can place a pushpin at the center point to help you maintain the same one for each zone.) As you create the different drivetime zones, use drawing tools to change the shading or line color for each zone to more clearly see the differences on the map.

Related topics

• About drivetime zones

• About finding places on the map

• About pushpins