Find nearby features
The Find Nearby tool allows you to find features in a layer within a specified distance of a selected feature or features. For example, if you have a Cities layer and an Airports layer, you could select a city from the Cities layer, then use the Find Nearby tool to locate features (airports) from the Airports layer within a specified distance of the selected city.
To use the Find Nearby tool in the ArcGIS Viewer for Silverlight, you must add it to a toolbar, as it is not included in new Viewer applications by default. The following steps describe how to add the Find Nearby tool and perform a find nearby analysis. For more information on adding tools, see Add and manage tools and toolbars.
- On the Tools tab of the Application Buildertoolbar, click Add Tool.
- In the Add Tool dialog box that appears, navigate to the Selection group, select Find Nearby, then click Next:
- Specify the tool properties, including the toolbar on which to place the Find Nearby tool, then click OK:
The Find Nearby tool will only become active if the map has selected features from a points layer. The following steps describe the use of the tool.
Note:Only distance between point features can be evaluated using the Find Nearby tool.
- Select a point feature on the map for use in the find nearby analysis. The Find Nearby tool will not be enabled until a feature is selected. (See Select features for more information).
- Click the newly added Find Nearby tool on the toolbar.
- On the Find Nearby dialog box that appears, select the target point layer to query from the Layer drop-down list.
- Enter a distance in the Distance text box:
- Select the distance unit type from the drop-down list:
- Click Find. This adds two new layers to the map, one containing all the features retrieved by the query and one containing the buffer that encompasses those features:
