Lasso Tool

Draw an area on a map to quickly edit, export, or delete all of the markers that are inside the lasso area. You can also find a route between all the markers or export boundaries, such as zip or postal codes, that fall inside the area.  

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What can I do with the Lasso Tool?

Drawing a Lasso polygon on your Maptive map opens a popup with 5 actions on every marker or boundary inside the outline, plus a reusable selection that stays until you toggle the icon.

Export Location Data: Pull the rows inside your lasso into a file using any of the available formats, or copy the rows to your clipboard for paste into another tool of choice.

Edit Data as a Group: Tick the Batch Edit checkbox next to a column, type a new value, and every marker inside the lasso updates at once with the change in your data tab.

Optimized Driving Route: Send every lassoed marker into the Routing/Directions tool to build an optimized driving route that runs across the picks you outlined on the map.

Export Boundaries: Pull every zip code, city, or other boundary inside the lasso, including ones not imported into your map plus any territories you already built in Maptive.

Batch Delete Markers: Run a permanent deletion that removes every lassoed marker from your map and from the data tab in 1 action that cannot be reversed after the run is done.

Reusable Selection: Your lasso polygon stays on the map until you click the X or toggle the lasso icon, and clicking inside the area reopens the same 5-option popup any time.

Lasso a Selection in 3 Steps

1

Click the Lasso

Click the lasso icon on the right side of your Maptive map, and the icon will highlight blue once it is ready for input.

2

Outline the Area

Click points around the area you want to lasso, then close the polygon by clicking the start point or double-clicking.

3

View The Results

Your picked action runs on every marker inside the polygon at once, with results written to your data tab in real time.

Where the Lasso Tool Pays Off

Bulk Edits in Seconds

A column needs the same value across hundreds of pins, and editing each row in your spreadsheet would burn the workday. With the Lasso Tool you outline the affected pins, tick the Batch Edit checkbox next to that column, type the new value once, and every marker inside the polygon updates. The change writes to your data tab right away.

Filtered Hand-Off Lists

Sharing a subset of locations from your dataset usually means filter, sort, copy, paste, and a fresh spreadsheet tab for every request. With the Lasso Tool you click points around the area on your map and pick Export Location Data to ship the rows inside as a file or onto your clipboard for paste. Your master spreadsheet stays untouched between requests.

Same-Day Route Building

Routing only part of your full pin list from a spreadsheet means filter, sort, copy, paste, then feed the result into a routing tool. You outline the stops on your map, pick the optimized route option from the popup, and the Routing/Directions tool builds an optimized driving route across only the picks you lassoed from a starting point you set.

Visual Team Reassignment

A territory swap used to mean opening a spreadsheet, sorting by region, finding every affected row, and re-keying values row by row. With the Lasso Tool you outline the moved accounts, tick Batch Edit on the owner or region column, type the new value, and the entire pool updates with the change written to your data tab the same moment, no second pass.

Custom Territory Rosters

Coverage areas often need a list of zip codes that follows how your team actually works rather than how postal boundaries fall. You outline the area on your map, pick Export Boundaries from the popup, and pull every zip code, city, or other boundary inside, including any territories you already built in Maptive. The list is ready for ops without lookup.

Map Database Hygiene

Datasets pick up duplicates, abandoned pins, and places that have long since closed. Those records skew totals and clutter the map for the rest of the team. You outline the cluster of bad pins, pick Batch Deletion from the popup, and Maptive removes every marker from the map and your data tab in 1 permanent action. The cleanup is fast and final.

Working With the Lasso Tool

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How Lasso Selection Works

Most teams that work with location data still pick subsets the same way they have for years. You open the master spreadsheet, scroll, sort by a column, copy a chunk of rows, paste them into a new tab, and start the work from there. For a list of 20 rows this is fine. For hundreds or thousands of records, the pattern eats hours and creates copy errors that show up later in the work.

A map flips that workflow. Pins represent your data points, and the geography is right there on screen, so you can see clusters, gaps, neighborhoods, and natural groups without opening a single filter dropdown. To pick a subset on a Maptive map, click the Lasso icon, click points around the area you mean, then close the polygon by clicking the start point or by double-clicking on the map.

A popup appears with 5 options on the markers or boundaries inside the polygon. Export the rows to a file in any of the available formats or copy them to your clipboard. Edit a column for every marker as a group with the Batch Edit checkbox. Build an optimized driving route. Export every boundary inside the lasso, including ones never imported. Run a permanent batch deletion. The lasso stays drawn until you remove it.

Bulk Edit Map Locations

Bulk work on location data looks the same across teams. A region changes hands, a status needs updating across hundreds of accounts, a tag goes onto a follow-up list, or a batch of stale records finally has to leave the dataset. The work is repetitive, and the cost of doing it row by row scales with the size of your data. A team with 20 accounts can absorb the manual pass; a team with 20,000 cannot do the same.

The Lasso Tool collapses the row-by-row part of that work into a polygon plus a menu pick from the popup. You outline the affected pins, then choose from Export, Edit Data as a Group, Optimized Route, Export Boundaries, or Batch Delete in the popup. Edit Data as a Group uses a Batch Edit checkbox per column, with the warning that ticking an empty column will remove that column's data from your dataset.

Common bulk patterns include reassigning 200 accounts to a new owner, exporting 80 markers from a custom area, deleting 40 stale locations, and tagging 100 records for a list. Each takes 1 outline, 1 menu pick, and 1 confirm click. The same polygon stays drawn for the next action, so you can run an export and then a Batch Edit on the same selection without redrawing the lasso.

Lasso vs Radius Selection

Maptive includes multiple ways to pick a group of pins on your map, and each method fits a different kind of work. A radius circle gives you a symmetric coverage area around a point and is the right pick when distance from a hub is the question you are answering. Drive-time polygons give a similar coverage area, only built around how far someone can drive from that hub in a set number of minutes.

The Lasso Tool fits when the area you care about does not match a circle, a drive-time polygon, or any postal boundary on the planet. Real territories rarely fall into perfect circles. Real neighborhoods, real coverage zones, and real custom carveouts have edges that make sense to your team but do not line up with anything a fixed boundary can describe well enough on a map.

The 3 selection methods complement each other on the same map. A radius circle frames where coverage might fall around a new branch. A drive-time polygon checks travel reach across a set time window. A lasso then carves out the exact list of markers you want to act on inside the framing area, and the 5-option popup runs the rest of the work for you. The lasso turns a visual call into rows that go back to your dataset.

FAQs About Lasso Tool

1What is the Lasso Tool in Maptive?
The Lasso Tool lets you draw a polygon on your Maptive map by clicking points around an area, then act on every marker or boundary inside the polygon at once. After you close the polygon by clicking the start point or double-clicking, a popup appears with 5 options: Export Location Data to a file or clipboard, Edit Data as a Group with a Batch Edit checkbox, Create an Optimized Driving Route, Export Boundaries inside the lasso, or run a Batch Deletion of every marker in the area.
2How do I draw a lasso on my map?
Click the lasso icon on the right side of your Maptive map. The icon highlights blue once it is ready for input. Click on the map near the outside edge of the area you want to draw, then move the cursor and click again to add another line of the polygon. Each click adds a side. Complete the polygon by clicking the start point a second time, or by double-clicking. A popup appears with the 5 lasso options for the markers inside the area.
3How do I edit data for a group of markers at once?
After you draw a lasso, pick Edit Data as a Group from the popup. You will see your data columns with a Batch Edit checkbox next to each. Tick the box for the column you want to update, type the new value, and confirm. Every marker inside the lasso takes the new value, and the change writes to your data tab. The Maptive docs warn that ticking Batch Edit on an empty column will remove the data from that column for every marker.
4How do I export only the markers inside my lasso?
After your lasso polygon is drawn, the popup appears with 5 options. Pick Export Location Data to a file. You can choose the file format from the available options, or use Copy to Clipboard for an instant paste into another tool. The export covers only the rows inside the polygon. The lasso stays drawn on the map after the export runs, so you can come back and run a Batch Edit, a Route, or another export on the same selection without redrawing the area again.
5Can I build a driving route from the markers I lassoed?
Yes. After drawing your lasso, pick the Optimized Driving Route option from the popup that appears next on the screen. Maptive sends the markers inside the polygon to the Routing/Directions tool, which builds an optimized driving route across only those picks. You can set the starting point in the routing tool. The full Routing/Directions documentation in the Maptive Answer Center covers the route settings and customization options available for further setup of your route on the map for the day.
6How do I get the zip codes inside a custom area?
Draw a lasso around the area you want, then pick Export Boundaries from the popup. Maptive returns every zip code, city, or other boundary inside the lasso. A pair of useful details from the docs: the export includes boundaries that were never imported into your map, and the export can pull from any territories you have already created in Maptive. Save or copy the list and feed it into a territory rule, a coverage definition, or any tool that reads a postal area list.
7How do I delete a batch of markers at once?
Lasso the markers you want gone, then pick Batch Deletion from the popup. Maptive removes every marker inside the polygon from the map and from your data tab in 1 action. The Maptive docs note the deletion is permanent and cannot be reversed once it has run. Use this when a batch of records is duplicate, abandoned, or out of date and you want the visual map and the underlying spreadsheet to land at a clean state at the same moment.
8Does my lasso stay on the map after I act on it?
Yes. The lasso polygon stays drawn on your map after you pick an action and the action runs to completion. The selection persists on the map until you remove it on your end. To remove the lasso you can click the X on the polygon, or click the lasso icon a second time to toggle the feature off. The persistent polygon makes it easy to re-run a different action on the same set of markers without redrawing the area on the map.
9Can I run another action on the same lasso area?
Yes. The Maptive docs say you can click on your lasso area at any time to bring back the same popup with the 5 options. The polygon stays on your map between actions, so you can run an Export, then come back and run a Batch Edit, then come back again for a Route, all on the same set of markers. When you are done, click the X or toggle the lasso icon to remove the selection from the map.
10How is the Lasso Tool different from a radius circle?
A radius circle is a fixed-distance ring around a point and works best when distance from a hub is the question you are answering. The Lasso Tool draws a polygon around any group of markers by clicking points, so the area you select can match a real neighborhood, a custom coverage zone, or any irregular cluster on the map. Both tools open menus of group actions on the markers inside the area, and the lasso fits any irregular cluster a circle cannot describe.

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