Selecting features from a map area to use as search criteria

A search can have a Select from map option, which you can use to select features from an overview map and then add them as criteria to your search. As a result, only those features whose attributes match the features you have added from the map (and any other criteria you have specified) are returned.

Figure 126 

A search with a Select from map option

1.	After you have selected the search you want to perform, click the Select from map button.

•	An overview map appears similar to the example in Figure 127 .

•	The type of feature that you can select appears in the title bar of the overview map window. In Figure 127 , notice that parks/golf courses has been selected.

Figure 127 

Selecting a community on the overview map

2.	Select the Zoom In icon to zoom in to the area where you want to select features.

3.	Click one of the selection tools at the top of the window to select the features you want to add to your search as criteria.

4.	Draw a shape on the map representing the area where you want to select features. Double-click to stop drawing the shape if using the polygon or line tool.

•	The larger the area covered by the shape you draw or the larger the number of features contained within it, the longer the wait period will be for features to appear on the map.

Figure 128 

Selecting features on the map to add as criteria to the search

•	The features within the boundaries of the shape are selected and listed at the bottom of the overview map window.

5.	Click the Remove link to the right of any features that you want to remove.

Figure 129 

Selected items in the overview map window

6.	Click Select.

•	The selections are added to the shaded list box to the left of the Select from map option.

•	If data entries are already in the list, the selections you have made are added to it.

7.	Specify any other criteria for the search and click Search.