GTK ArcGIS Chapter 10 Selecting features by location

When selecting feature by location, there are four types of spatial relationships:

1. distance
2. containment
3. intersection
4. adjacency

We're scouting to locate a new store in the Riverside, CA area for a chain of gourmet food stores.

• select neighborhoods(polygons) within 0.5 miles of a freeway(lines)
• from selected neighborhoods, select those containing shopping centers (points)
• select census tracts with more than 4000 households and average income over $65000
• select from subset of neighborhoods, theose with centroid in the upscale census tracts previously selected
• The Canyon Crest neighborhood has a shopping center (this is our target)
• query the CCzoning layer using a Definition Query (only features satisfying definition query "zoned commercial"records will be displayed in map while the rest are hidden)
• zoom in on the one area zonned commercial that also has a shopping center
• display the buildings footprint layer, which we can query attribute table for a square footage betwen 4000 and 6000 square feet.

You can also join attribute tables by location