Isolate areas where certain layers overlap. This is especially useful for isolating and analyzing shared regions between different site boundaries, constraints, or other layers in your project.
Basic intersection of geometry
This example targets areas in census tracts with coal closures on tribal land.
- Toggle on the desired layers; in this case, 2024 Coal Closure Energy Communities and Federal and Tribal Land.
Important
Switching the order of layers in the catalog can improve visibility into where overlaps are occurring. Click and drag layers at the top of the Layer catalog to adjust their order and improve visibility on the map.
Switching the order of layers in the catalog can improve visibility into where overlaps are occurring. Click and drag layers at the top of the Layer catalog to adjust their order and improve visibility on the map.
- Click on the target area of overlap. A pop up window will appear with two tabs. Click Copy on the first tab. Click on the second tab and repeat.
- Both features will now be copied to the map.
Tip
Toggle off the layers in the Layer catalog for a cleaner map view.
Toggle off the layers in the Layer catalog for a cleaner map view.
- Use a multi-select click to select each of the copied features. Hold down CTRL key (Mac: Command key) while left-clicking each copied feature with cursor to select it in the map sidebar. The selected items will populate in the Map Selection box.
- From there, click Design > Create intersection of geometry.
- (OPTIONAL) Delete copied elements for a cleaner map view (see below).
- Conduct a parcel search. Click on the area of overlap i.e. Intersect Geometry. In the pop up box click on See Actions > Project Tasks > Find Parcels within Polygon.