idea Select By Location (using &quot;Have their Centroid in&quot;) should have &quot;inside requried&quot; option in ArcGIS Pro Ideas https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-ideas/select-by-location-using-quot-have-their-centroid/idi-p/938740 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>When using select by location/Have their centroid in option the geometry selection engine appears to use the literal centroid.&nbsp; With "U" shaped geometries the centroid will lie outside of polygon and will not be selected.&nbsp; We would prefer to do spatial selections using the forced inside centroid and not using something like intersect, or a negative buffer, etc... as the results are unreliable for our situations.&nbsp; To get around this I must make a centroid FC (using the inside option) run a spatial section against it then join back the results to the original layer to subset which take quite a bit more time than something a check box (or an alternate spatial selection method) could provide.&nbsp;</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 13 Feb 2015 14:05:02 GMT ChrisMcGarry1 2015-02-13T14:05:02Z Select By Location (using "Have their Centroid in") should have "inside requried" option https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-ideas/select-by-location-using-quot-have-their-centroid/idi-p/938740 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>When using select by location/Have their centroid in option the geometry selection engine appears to use the literal centroid.&nbsp; With "U" shaped geometries the centroid will lie outside of polygon and will not be selected.&nbsp; We would prefer to do spatial selections using the forced inside centroid and not using something like intersect, or a negative buffer, etc... as the results are unreliable for our situations.&nbsp; To get around this I must make a centroid FC (using the inside option) run a spatial section against it then join back the results to the original layer to subset which take quite a bit more time than something a check box (or an alternate spatial selection method) could provide.&nbsp;</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 13 Feb 2015 14:05:02 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-ideas/select-by-location-using-quot-have-their-centroid/idi-p/938740 ChrisMcGarry1 2015-02-13T14:05:02Z Re: Select By Location (using "Have their Centroid in") should have "inside requried" option https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-ideas/select-by-location-using-quot-have-their-centroid/idc-p/938741#M4920 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>The "centroid inside" option should exist for the Spatial Join tool, too.&nbsp;Do the Select By Location and Spatial Join tools&nbsp;use the same code/logic?</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 21 Feb 2019 20:23:45 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-ideas/select-by-location-using-quot-have-their-centroid/idc-p/938741#M4920 JeffThomasILM 2019-02-21T20:23:45Z Re: Select By Location (using "Have their Centroid in") should have "inside requried" option https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-ideas/select-by-location-using-quot-have-their-centroid/idc-p/938742#M4921 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Adding this comment from:&nbsp;<A href="https://community.esri.com/ideas/19011" target="_blank">https://community.esri.com/ideas/19011</A>&nbsp;</P><P></P><P><IMG class="image-1 jive-image" src="https://community.esri.com/legacyfs/online/506539_pastedImage_1.png" /></P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 22 Jun 2021 08:59:23 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-ideas/select-by-location-using-quot-have-their-centroid/idc-p/938742#M4921 KoryKramer 2021-06-22T08:59:23Z