5.9 Determining the Size of Geometries

You can run a spatial analysis to measure the size of the geometries on your map layer.

The analysis operation returns the size of the geometries in bytes. These values are stored in a new dataset column. Perform the following steps to measure the size of the geometries.

The instructions assume that you have a dataset with point geometries displayed on your Active Project page.

1. Click against the map layer whose coordinates needs to be filtered in the Layers tab.
2. Select Spatial Analysis.
   The Spatial Analysis Operations slider opens as shown in Figure 5-1.
3. Click on the Measure tab and select Calculate geometry storage size in bytes.
   A slider opens as shown:

   Figure 5-17 Calculating Geometry Size Configuration

   
   

   
   Description of "Figure 5-17 Calculating Geometry Size Configuration"

   
   
4. Optionally, modify the Result Column Name.
5. Select the Geometry Column from the drop-down list to compute the geometry size.
6. Click Run.
   The Analysis result is added as a new column to the dataset in the Active Project page. You can then interact with the map to view the size value through tool tip or info windows. For example:
   

   
   Description of the illustration geometry_size_viz.png