carto-trade-area-analysis
Trade Area Analysis
Builds CARTO Workflows that define catchment areas around candidate locations, enrich them with data, and score/rank locations for site selection, billboard placement, or coverage analysis.
Prerequisites: Load carto-create-workflow for the development process, JSON structure, and validation. It covers both access paths — the MCP server's workflow tools (create_workflow, validate_workflow, run_workflow) when attached, the carto workflows CLI otherwise. Routing signals: carto-basics/references/access-paths.md.
Ad-hoc catchments: for a one-off isochrone around a handful of points, use the calculate_isolines MCP tool (available over OAuth, or on a token session whose Allowed APIs include LDS) — the workflow patterns below are for table-scale, repeatable analysis.
Instructions
A trade area workflow always follows this pipeline:
Candidate Locations → (Filter) → Catchment Areas → Spatial Index → Enrich → Aggregate → Score/Rank → Save