# By File within By Drawing

Within the ‘By Drawing’ Option, there is a ‘By File’ Option available in the drop-down.

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This helps the user to plot data by uploading .zip, .shp, .kml or. geojson file and filter records on the plotted shapes as per the uploaded file. Thus, the user can visualize records as per his requirement within a specific shape.

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