Find areas around your points

Finding areas around points is a common analytical need. For example, if you have a building point and you want to know all the parcels within a half mile, you will need to buffer the point by a half mile to find out the parcels that are within that distance. To do this, follow the steps below: 

1. Login to InfraMarker
2. Select the project that contains the dataset you want to buffer
3. Go to the project's "Advanced Queries" page
4. Select "Create new query"
5. In the dark text area, type "SELECT ST_BUFFER( <the name of the geometry field>::geography, 100)::geometry(Polygon, 4326) from "
   Then select the dataset in the dataset browser and it will add "dataset_XXXX" to the text. 
6. Click "Execute" to run the query and the results will be displayed in the table and map below. In this guide we're buffering by 100 meters
7. Click "Create Permanent Dataset" to create a new dataset with your point's buffered areas.
8. You're done!