Shapes

Use shapes to select a geospatial area on your map in which to search for objects, select objects already on your map, take actions, or create annotations.

Create a shape

All operations available on shapes first require an active shape. Create a shape in one of the ways below:

• Construct a shape yourself using the drawing tools.
• Use the currently selected objects and annotations to create shapes that cover the same geospatial area as your selection.

Draw a shape

Click Draw in the toolbar or press d on your keyboard to manually draw a shape on the map.

Select from the various modes available using the dropdown accessible by clicking on the current drawing mode:

From selection

You can also create shapes from the active selection on the map. Right-click on any selected object and use the Create shape from selection menu entry.

Modify a shape

You can edit active shapes on your map by using the Modify button in the shapes toolbar.

There are a number of modification tools available:

• Edit points: Lets you drag individual vertices to modify polygons, lines, or points.
• Buffer: Allows entering a specific distance by which to grow or shrink the perimeter of shapes.
• Translate: Enables moving an entire shape by dragging it.
• Replace: Discards the currently drawn shape and opens the drawing tools to draw a new shape.

Once finished applying modifications, use the Done button to return the shapes toolbar.

Perform operations with an active shape

With an active shape, use the Shapes toolbar to perform various operations:

• Select intersecting: Selects every object on your map that is in a visible layer and that intersects the current shape.
• Search within: Opens the Add objects panel and filters the results to only include objects that have geospatial data that intersects the current shape. Note that only objects with geohash or geoshape properties can be searched.
• Actions: Shows every available ontology action that consumes shapes. Read more about configuring geospatial actions at Actions. Note that the actions button will only appear if geospatial actions have been configured in the ontology.
• Annotate: Creates an annotation from the current shape.

Any successful shape operation will clear the active shape.

Measurements

When drawing a line or polygon, you can configure the measurements shown on the shape by selecting the cog icon on the shape drawing toolbar. You can specify the measurement unit in Settings.

• Show measurements on map: Enable the display of measurements on shapes on the map.
• Polygon measurements
  • Perimeter: Configure how measurements are displayed for polygon perimeters. Choose from no display, length displayed for each perimeter segment, or the total length of the entire perimeter.
  • Area: Enable the display of the total area for polygons.
• Line measurements
  • Length: Configure how measurements are displayed for lines. Choose from no display, length displayed for each line segment, or the total length for the entire line.