Creating a User-Defined Boundary File

User-defined boundary files define areas of interest to your organization, such as sales territories or insurance rating territories. AssignGeoTAXInfo uses this data to determine if an address falls within an area of interest. For example, you can create a boundary file that defines your sales territories. AssignGeoTAXInfo can then determine the tax jurisdictions that apply to an address and the sales territory of that address.

Note: User-defined boundary files in AssignGeoTAXInfo allow you to perform basic "point-in-polygon" spatial analysis. Point In Polygon provides additional point-in-polygon features.
  1. Create an ESRI shapefile (.SHP) or MapInfo data interchange format file (.MIF) with the boundaries you want. Your .SHP or .MIF file can have up to three columns of user-defined data. The first and second columns are 10 bytes long and the third column is 50 bytes long.
  2. Use the Boundary File Conversion utility to convert your .SHP or .MIF file to a .TXB file. The Boundary File Conversion utility is available on the GeoTAX Utilities CD. The GeoTAX Utilities CD can be downloaded from the www.g1.com/Support web site. Select the GeoTAX product page; the utilities download and document links are provided on the Subcomponents panel.
  3. Load the User-Defined Boundary file using the appropriate database load procedure based on your platform. The filename that should be entered for the User-Defined Boundary file is usr.txb.