topic How to get distance between geometries in ArcGIS JS 4.10? in ArcGIS JavaScript Maps SDK Questions

How to get distance between geometries in ArcGIS JS 4.10?

VincentLantaca1 — Fri, 14 Dec 2018 19:59:47 GMT

I have a Feature Layer that contains polyline geometries and I have a point. I am trying to find the closest polyline to that point.

I have looked for a way to do this and I have found FindNearest and it looks like it can accomplish what I need to do:

https://developers.arcgis.com/javascript/3/jsapi/findnearest-amd.html

However, it doesn't look like this exists in ArcGIS API for JS 4.10. Has this been replaced with something else? Is there anything I can use in 4.10 instead of FindNearest?

Thanks

Re: How to get distance between geometries in ArcGIS JS 4.10?

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Fri, 14 Dec 2018 20:19:53 GMT

Vincent,

As of yet the analysis library is not part of the 4.x API. The closest thing available is nearestVertex

geometryEngine | API Reference | ArcGIS API for JavaScript 4.10

But this method only take a simple geometry and a Point as input and returns the nearest point from the input geometry. Meaning you would have to loop through each of the layer geometries to find the one with the least distance.