idea Clip to Shape or Mask in ArcGIS Online Ideas

Clip to Shape or Mask

MelanieWilliams1 — Mon, 27 Jun 2016 11:54:11 GMT

Our Organization has several commonly used statewide layers that are used for various reasons. It would be nice to have the option to clip to shape or mask these statewide layers to a watershed polygon to better focus attention on the topic at hand. We can, of course, zoom in to the watershed of interest and highlight that area with a semi transparent polygon but when you are trying to simplify/clean the map for a quick map a mask would be preferable. We could also clip the data out into new feature services but this would cause us to do thousands of clippings and overwriting on a weekly bases.

Re: Clip to Shape or Mask

KellyGerrow — Tue, 05 Jul 2016 18:14:15 GMT

Are any of your needs met with the perform analysis tools?: Perform analysis—ArcGIS Online Help | ArcGIS

-Kelly

Re: Clip to Shape or Mask

MelanieWilliams1 — Wed, 06 Jul 2016 12:41:59 GMT

Unfortunately not. The Extract Data tool is the closest of these tools but I'm not looking to make new files. Rather, I need to stay connected to the existing statewide layers. In the image below, I would like to select the hollow polygon and only show the points in that polygon with all others points outside of that area masked. A map with the same data points will be made for each of these gray polygons so I would like to avoid making separate point layer files for each of the 1700 polygons. Also, those point files have data that updates about once a week/month so it would be extremely beneficial if I don't break the link to the original file. Thanks for the suggestion though!

Re: Clip to Shape or Mask

KellyGerrow — Wed, 06 Jul 2016 15:47:18 GMT

Thanks for your reply Melanie! This is a really great description of the issue.

Re: Clip to Shape or Mask

DeanHowell1 — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 04:43:53 GMT

We also would love to see a masking option in ArcGIS Online. One project I am working on has a range of town areas that we want to highlight and in ArcGIS Pro we can mask out the surrounding areas but it does not publish to ArcGIS Online. It would be great for the masking functionality to be able to follow when publishing.