Creating Spatial Feature Classes Based on Proximity, Overlay, and Attributes - Introducing Geographic Information Systems with ArcGIS - page 407

p and v q and vq and w

p and u

q and u

r and v

s and w

s and u

r and x s and v s and x

FIGURE 7-9 Overlay of “A” and “B”

TABLE 7-3

Shape_area Shape_length Zone Jurisdiction

p u

p v

q v

q w

q u

r v

r x

s u

s v

s w

s x

Overlaying with Line and Point Feature Classes

When you do an overlay, one of the two feature classes is frequently of the polygon type. The other may
be point, line, or, as you saw above, polygon. What does it mean to overlay a polygon feature class and a
point feature class? Basically, the change is only the tabular output (although some points may be omitted
if they lie outside the scope of all polygons, depending on which command you use).