Select features on the map. The Select tool on the ArcGIS Maps for Power BI visualization allows report or dashboard consumers and authors to interact with other visualizations by selecting features on the map.
.The Select By Location tool lets you select features based on their location relative to features in another layer. For instance, if you want to know how many homes were affected by a recent flood, you could select all the homes that fall within the flood boundary.You can use a variety of selection methods to select the point, line, or polygon features in one layer that are near or overlap the features in the same or another layer. Steps for using Select By LocationUse the following steps to apply the Select By Location tool. Note that you select features from a layer (or a set of layers) that have a spatial relationship with features from a source layer.
For example, select features from USA Counties that touch the boundary of the features in the layer named 'Texas.' The dialog box guides you in specifying each selection property. Click Selection Select By Location to open the Select by Location dialog box. Choose the type of selection that you want to make. There are a few other operators that are equivalent to intersect in specific cases. These include the use of.
'Are identical to' when comparing point features. 'Are within a distance of' when specifying no buffer or a buffer distance of zeroAre within a distance ofThis operator creates buffers using the buffer distance around the source features and returns all the features intersecting the buffer zones. For example, select cities within 100 meters of a river or railroad.The highlighted cyan features are selected because they fall within the selected distance of the red features.
Are withinTo be selected, the geometry of the target feature must fall inside the geometry of the source feature. Selected features and source features can have overlapping boundaries.For example, using this operator, the state of Montana is selected even if it shares boundaries with the United States.
Finding features that are within (contained by) point features Finding features that are within (contained by) line features Finding features that are within (contained by) polygon features Are completely withinTo be selected, all parts of the target features must fall inside the geometry of the source feature(s) and cannot touch the source's boundaries. For example, in a target layer of counties, Dallas County is selected because it falls within the source polygon of Texas. This would be true for all counties that do not fall along Texas's boundary.
In the target layer of counties, Dallas County is selected (along with other counties) because it falls completely within Texas.This operator is the reverse of 'Completely contain.' See more below.The source feature must be a polygon, or you must apply a buffer around point and line features to use this operator.The highlighted cyan features are selected because they are completely within the red features.
ContainTo be selected, the geometry of the source feature must fall inside the geometry of the target feature including its boundaries. For example, a polygon representing the United States contains the state of Texas and is selected even though they share common boundaries along their southern borders.This is the inverse of the operator 'Are within.' Finding features that contain point features Finding features that contain line features Finding features that contain polygon features Completely containTo be selected, all parts of the target feature must completely contain the geometries of the source feature. In addition, the source feature cannot touch or overlap the target's boundaries. For example, if the source feature is the state of Kansas, a feature representing the United States boundary is selected because it completely contains the state of Kansas and does not touch along its boundaries. However, this is not true if the source feature is Texas because of their shared boundaries.
This is the inverse of the operator 'Are Completely Within.' The target feature layer must be a polygon.The highlighted cyan features are selected because they completely contain the red features. Finding polygon features that completely contain point, line, or polygon features Have their centroid inA target feature is selected by this operator if the centroid of its geometry falls into the geometry of the source feature or on its boundaries.The highlighted cyan features are selected because they have their centroids in the red features.
Finding features that have their centroid within a distance of point features Finding features that have their centroid within a distance of line features Finding features that have their centroid within a distance of polygon features Share a line segment withWith this method, the source and target features are considered as sharing a line segment if their geometries have at least two contiguous vertices in common.The source and target features must be either lines or polygons.The highlighted cyan features are selected because they share a line segment with a red feature. Finding features that share a line segment with line features Finding features that share a line segment with polygon features Touch the boundary ofA target feature will be selected if the intersection of its geometry with the source feature is nonempty, but the intersection of their interiors is empty. This is the definition of the Clementini touch operator, so if the target feature touches (as defined by Clementini) the source feature, it is selected.The source and target features must be either lines or polygons.The operator includes the Clementini operator but also expands it.
An additional case is also supported: an interior line or a polygon completely contained within a polygon is selected if its geometry shares line segments, vertices, or endpoints with the polygon boundary.The highlighted cyan features are selected because they touch the boundary of a red feature. Finding features that touch the boundary of line features Finding features that touch the boundary of polygon features Are identical toTwo features are considered identical if their geometries are strictly equal. The feature types must be the same—for instance, you can use this operator to compare two polygon layers, but comparing a point layer and a polygon layer for identity always returns an empty selection.The highlighted cyan features are selected because they are identical to a red feature. Finding features that are identical to other features Are crossed by the outline ofFor this operator, the boundaries of the source and target feature must have at least one edge, vertex, or endpoint in common but must not share a line segment.The source and target features must be either lines or polygons. Finding features that are crossed by the outline of line features Finding features that are crossed by the outline of polygon features Contain (Clementini)This operator provides the same results as Contain unless the source feature is entirely on the boundary of the target feature, with no part of the source feature inside the target feature.
In this case, using the Contain Clementini operator does not select the target feature, whereas the Contain operator does. Clementini states that a polygon's boundary is separate from its inside and outside.Clementini refers to the 'are within' and 'contains' topological relationship as defined in the following paper: Eliseo Clementini, Paolino Di Felice, and Peter van Oosterom, A Small Set of Formal Topological Relationships Suitable for End-User Interaction.
Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Advances in Spatial Databases, pp. 277–295, June 23–25, 1993.The highlighted cyan features are selected because they contain a red feature. Finding features that contain point features Finding features that contain line features Finding features that contain polygon features Are Within (Clementini)This operator provides the same results as Are Within unless the Target feature is entirely on the boundary of the source feature, with no part of the target feature inside the source feature. In this case, using the Are Within Clementini operator does not select the target feature, whereas the Are Within operator does. Clementini states that a polygon's boundary is separate from its inside and outside.Clementini refers to the 'are within' and 'contains' topological relationship as defined in the following paper: Eliseo Clementini, Paolino Di Felice, and Peter van Oosterom, A Small Set of Formal Topological Relationships Suitable for End-User Interaction.
Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Advances in Spatial Databases, pp. 277–295, June 23–25, 1993. Finding features that are within (contained by) point features Finding features that are within (contained by) line features Finding features that are within (contained by) polygon features Related Topics.
.Selecting features allows you to identify or work with a subset of features on your map. You'll most likely work with selected features when you are querying, exploring, analyzing, or editing data. Applying a selection lets you specify the features you want to calculate statistics for, view attributes for, or edit or define the set of features that comprise a map layer.There are several ways you can select features.
You can select features with your mouse pointer by clicking them one at a time or by dragging a box around them on the map. There are two main ways to select features interactively on the map:. Use the Select Features tool on the Tools toolbar. Select their records in the Table or Graph window with your mouse pointer.As you are selecting, the number of features selected is shown immediately in the lower left corner of the ArcMap window after you make the selection. It's also shown after the layer name on the view in the table of contents.To add features to an existingselection, hold down the SHIFT key while you select features.
Toremove one or more features from a selection of multiple features,hold down SHIFT and click the features.To deselect all selected features at once, click the map wherethere are no features, click a feature of a layer that is notselectable, or click the Clear Selected Features tool on the Toolstoolbar.Preparing to select featuresInteractive feature selection involves digitizing a shape to select a set of features that overlap the shape. Before you begin to select features, you should do the following:. Set the list of selectable layers. You can set and manage the list of selectable layers in the table of contents view. Specify how the shapes that you digitize will be used to select features.
You have three options:. Select features that overlap the selection shape wholly or partially. Select features that are completely contained by the selection shape. Select the features that completely contain the graphic selection shape.Set this option by clicking Selection Selection Options from the main menu. Set other selection options on this dialog box, such as the selection color and warnings on the number of features in selection results. Specify if you want to select a new set of features or modify the existing set of selected features.
To select consecutive records in a table, click and drag the mousepointer up or down, or select the record at the top of the set youwant to select, hold down SHIFT, then select the record atthe end of the set.You can select records that are not consecutive and unselect features by holding down the CTRL key as you click the feature. Selecting features using another layerYou can select features in one layer that overlap or touch features in another layer using the Select By Location tool.
This allows you to overlay features from a selection layer and use these to identify features that overlap these selection features. See for more information. Selecting features while editingWhen editing, you can also select features using special edit selection tools.See for more information. Steps for setting the Selection tolerance.Click Selection Selection Options on the main menu.The Selection Options dialog box opens.Specify the number of pixels you want to use as your selection tolerance when selecting features. A value of 3 to 5 pixels usually works well.
A pixel count that is too small can be frustrating because it will be hard to precisely position and select features. However, too large of a pixel radius will result in inaccurate selections.Selection will not necessarily find the feature closest to the cursor; it returns the first feature in the dataset that is within the tolerance.Related Topics.