Identify Features in A Feature Layer: Feature Layers Map Image Layers Web Map Service (WMS) Layers Graphics Overlays

Maps and scenes often contain multiple data sources like feature layers, images, and graphics. The identify methods allow users to learn about map content by clicking or tapping on items. Information returned can be displayed in pop-ups. Identify methods can determine the visible items at a point, within specific layers or overlays, and return the topmost item or all items. Results consider symbology, visibility, and visible extent. Identify is supported for feature layers, images, WMS layers, graphics overlays, scenes, and tiled layers supporting identify. If time filtering is used, only features within the time extent will be returned.

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Maps and scenes often combine multiple sources of information such as feature layers, image
layers, and graphics. Labels and legends don't always provide enough information to work
out what the map or scene is displaying. Use the identify methods to quickly answer the
question 'what is this item here?', allowing your users to easily explore and learn about the
map or scene content by tapping or clicking on them. Information returned can be shown in
pop-ups or other UI components in your app.

You can identify the visible items at a specific point on screen:

 Within all the layers in the map or scene, or only within a specific layer
 Within all the graphics overlays in the view or only within a specific graphics overlay
 Returning only the topmost item or all the items at that location
 Returning the feature, graphic, or other item at that location, or by returning pop-ups
for pop-up-enabled layers

Identify methods are asynchronous, so that the UI thread of your application is not blocked
waiting for results. This is especially important when working with data which resides on a
server, as results do not return immediately. The results of an identify take into account:

 Symbology—tapping on a large marker symbol used to draw a point, or a wide line

symbol used to draw a polyline or outline of a polygon will include those items in the
results; it's not just the geometry that is used.
 Visibility—the visibility of a graphics overlay or layer, and of an individual feature or
graphic is checked, and results will only include the visible items. The opacity of a
layer or graphic is ignored.
 Visible extent—only items within the currently visible map or scene extent are
included in identify results.

Identify is supported on feature layers, map image layers, Web Map Service (WMS)

layers, graphics overlays, scene layers, and also on tiled layers that are based on map services
that support identify.

Note:

If time-based filtering is being used (a time extent has been set on the displaying map or
scene view), identify will only return features that are within the time extent set on the geo
view.

The sections below show you how to identify different items in the map or scene in different
ways, but these approaches can be combined to provide general identify functionality if
required.