Re: [Maptitude] Selecting a block within a city

[Reinaldo Paul P�rez Machado]

Nope. City layer is a point layer, what you need is an area layer, the problem is that none of the area layers available with Maptitude data sets are really city block layers. Census tracks are the most similar but not quite the "real" thing. The suggestion of Tom Blazer is a good idea, but it has some inconveniences, like having a city block without the road "space" in between them, and the problem of selecting always the streets necessary to create the blocks from the inside, that means that all the surrounding streets will remain without block on the "outside". Hope this helps, Reinaldo Earl Machen wrote: I really have no idea what layer to use, would it be the city layer? On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 10:36:55 -0200, Reinaldo Paul Pérez Machado <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Please define where are you going to select the blocks, I mean in which geographic dataset. It is your own? Is there a city block layer? You will need a block layer in order to select items or do thematic mapping with its features. Otherwise it will be necessary to create (digitize) it first. Reinaldo ________________________________ Earl Machen wrote: So are you saying I cannot just salect different blocks within a city and give them one color, do the same with a seperate set/color? On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 05:01:02 -0700 (PDT), Stephen Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: use the SelectByLocation from the drop-down or SelectByVicinity() with the DK. --- Earl Machen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is it possible to select a block or blocks within a city? Would this be done with the city layer? Yahoo! Groups Sponsor Get unlimited calls to U.S./Canada Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Maptitude/   To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]   Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.