topic Spatially Exporting Building Footprint polygons in ArcGIS Pro Questions

Spatially Exporting Building Footprint polygons

rsivisuals — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 19:04:33 GMT

This should be an easy one for y'all. I have a geopackage file of building footprint polygons. I need to export them into small tiles by specifying the Extents. I do NOT want to clip them, only export whole polys. The problem is when a poly sits on the edge of the export extents of neighbouring tiles it will be exported into both tiles so I have a duplicate.

Do I really have to calculate centroids for each poly and check the centroid against the export extents?

Re: Spatially Exporting Building Footprint polygons

DavidPike — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 21:20:33 GMT

What's the process, is it automated? - something like select by location iterating through the footprints as the selecting polygon?

Select by Location

https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/latest/tool-reference/data-management/select-layer-by-location.htm

Already has a 'Relationship' property - 'Have their center in' which may solve the issue (depending on what your process is).