We have recently purchased VM and are trying to use it to explore the relationship between sales outlets and central stockists around the UK. The outlets do not necessarily have any link to the stockists but are possibly effected by the number of sales people at the central stockist. Basically we are trying to model which outlet is under the "influence" of which stockist. So far we've built a huff model using a weight factor based on nearest outlet and number of sales people. The problem is that when we put contours over the grid surface, because some of the contours cover more than 1 outlet, it becomes impossible to decipher which outlet fits into which central stockists catchment. Does anyone know if, besides fiddling around for hours, if there is anyway of generating mutually exclusive contours around the central stockists and also if ther is a way to easily allocate the stockists id_number to them? Alternately, does anyone have any ideas as to how we establish if a contour envelops more than 1 central stockist? If anyone has any ideas, and if you have a clue what I'm talking about, i'd be gratefull Thanks - Andrew Whittam DunnHumby Assoc Ltd London - UK ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
