topic Re: Finding Intersection of two polygons in popup in ArcGIS JavaScript Maps SDK Questions

Finding Intersection of two polygons in popup

JeffreyThompson1 — Thu, 23 Sep 2021 21:36:14 GMT

I am attempting to calculate the area of intersection for two feature layers in a popup field. The layer I am building the popup for is called Parcels and the other layer is Impact Area. This is my best guess at the expression, but it is returning blank.

expression: "AreaGeodetic(Intersection($feature, FeatureSetByName($map, 'Impact Area')), 'acres')"

Any suggestions?

Re: Finding Intersection of two polygons in popup

JohannesLindner — Mon, 27 Sep 2021 05:47:20 GMT

Intersection takes 2 geometries as input, you use a feature set as second argument.

Assuming that a parcel can intersect multiple impact areas and that impact areas do not overlap:

var impact_areas = Intersects($feature, FeatureSetByName($map, 'Impact Area')) var impacted_area = 0 for(var ia in impact_areas) { impacted_area += AreaGeodetic(Intersection($feature, ia), 'acres') return impacted_area

Re: Finding Intersection of two polygons in popup

JeffreyThompson1 — Fri, 24 Sep 2021 14:40:15 GMT

@JohannesLindner

To clarify, I have one impact area on my map which intersects with multiple parcels that do not overlap with each other. I am looking for the area in a single parcel that falls within the impact area. Based on your suggestion I have tried the following code. It also returns blank with this error: SyntaxError: Unexpected token o in JSON at position 1

expression: "AreaGeodetic(Intersection($feature, Geometry(FeatureSetByName($map, 'Impact Area', ['*'], true))), 'acres')"

I also attempted your solution and it also returned blank with a Missing Parameters error.

What is the best way to select the geometry from another map layer to use in this function?

Re: Finding Intersection of two polygons in popup

JeffreyThompson1 — Fri, 24 Sep 2021 16:56:44 GMT

I came up with a solution. (For a single impact area shapefile)

expression: "AreaGeodetic(Intersection($feature, First(FeatureSetByName($map, 'Impact Area', ['*'], true))), 'acres')"

I found out I also need to handle multiple impact area shapefiles and corrected a couple errors in the original reply to get my final solution.

var impact_areas = Intersects($feature, FeatureSetByName($map, 'Impact Area', ['*'], true)) var impacted_area = 0 for(var ia in impact_areas) { impacted_area += AreaGeodetic(Intersection($feature, ia), 'acres') } return impacted_area

Thanks @JohannesLindner I wouldn't have got there without you.

Re: Finding Intersection of two polygons in popup

JohannesLindner — Mon, 27 Sep 2021 05:48:42 GMT

Ah yes, I missed the $feature in the Intersects function. Should have tested it, sorry.

I edited my original reply for future reference.