An important element of many geospatial applications is the ability to search for features that meet certain criteria. The nature of those criteria might be spatial (e.g., land parcels adjacent to a particular street) or non-spatial (e.g., land parcels owned by a particular person).
In Lesson 7, we’ll see how Query objects can be used in an Esri JS API app to answer both spatial and non-spatial questions. Before that, however, we’ll look at the API’s Search widget, which can be used to find values in a layer’s attribute table or to find places when configured to work with a locator service.
At the successful completion of this lesson, you should be able to:
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