Segmenting on a custom location field
Hi all, I've currently got a use case where I want to target a Braze canvas at customers who have previously ordered within a given radius of a specific location. We don't use Braze's SDK based location tracking, and don't need to (we don't need that granularity, and don't need real time location of customers), but do have location points that we would like to use and segment on.
The way I'd like to do this is:
- Store the location we're interested in as custom property on the customer's profile as lat / long.
- Use this custom to be the centre of a location radius in a segment filter. In the same way as we can do for `most recent location` as shown in this screenshot:
I can't find any reference to a location data type for custom properties. Clearly Braze is capable of doing such location based calculations, and has the concept of location - but this seems to be something that is very tightly coupled to use location tracking in the SDK, and not more arbitrary location operations.
We don't want to be tracking users as such, but do have specific relevant locations stored in our system. We'd like to be able to send these over to Braze so that we can use them in segment filters - but I can't see anywhere in the documentation whether this is possible or not. At present we are able to use connected audience filters to segment based on postcodes (using a regex), but we'd prefer to be more accurate re radius from a given point.
Any help or pointers with this would be hugely appreciated.