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Filters, Queries, and Selection Sets

Maptitude provides many tools for asking and answering questions about the features in a map and the data in a dataview. These filter tools answer three types of queries:

• Location questions: “Which customers live within five miles of a store?”

• Attribute questions: “Which ZIP Codes have a median household income over $75,000?”

• Combination questions: “Which parcels are over 1/4 acre and located within 1/3 mile of a school?”

Maptitude stores the filtered answers to your questions in a selection set, and illustrates the answer by highlighting features in the selection set on the map and in the dataview as shown here:

For a video tutorial see: (Internet connection required) • Working with Maptitude Selection Sets

Topics in this section:

• Asking Questions 
• Selection Set Basics  
• Selecting Features with the Selection Tools  
• Selecting Features by Location 
• Selecting Features Based on Attributes 
• Selecting Features in a Map Window
• Creating Selection Sets from a Theme 
• Selecting Features Based on Adjacency 
• Copying, Combining, and Transposing Selection Sets 
• Showing Selection Sets on a Map 
• Showing Selection Sets in a Dataview 
• Creating New Files from Selection Sets 

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