Get polygon from within another polygon

Question

Trying to look for how to do this and I'm kind of at a loss here.. Here's my dilemma:

I have a polygon shape, and I want to use that shape and get only the polygon data from 2 other layers that are only within that shape. Once I get those I'm going to union the resultant polygons but what would be a good second step for this? First step is getting the polygon I want to use. I did read about the clip geometry tool but it looks like from what I'm reading, that only clips on a selected extent, and not an actual input geometry. Any guidance would be wonderful. Thanks!!

DeanWilson · Answer

They want me to show data in a table combined with both soil and land use.  I guess drawing it I won't need to unionize it. Maybe I'll go back to rethink that part of it. Typing it out makes me think we should have a different approach then what they did before. This was an arcmap add-on written in VB that's being ported over to a web application using the javascript api.

RobertScheitlin__GISP · Answer

1. Then your spatial relationship is contains

2. So why do you have to union anything. I am still unclear.

DeanWilson · Answer

1) The polygons need to be completely contained in the selection polygon.

2) What I'm doing is searching on a parcel geometry for land use and soil types so I want to show the land use and soil types within the parcel polygon.  Hopefully that makes sense..