Spatial Queries
Spatial queries let you select features based on their spatial relationship with an existing object or or with a polygon, line or point that you draw. For example, if a chemical leak occurred in a particular location, and the wind is spreading the chemical odor across a 150 km radius, you could perform a spatial query to determine which surrounding towns need to be evacuated by drawing a polygon around the contaminated area, and then setting a buffer of 150 km. Alternatively, if, for example, you wanted to find all schools that intersected with a specific road, you could select the road as the object selection, and perform a spatial query based on it, without needing to draw a selection area. More about: Spatial queries >
Attribute Queries
The Attribute Table tool lets you search and filter data based on the attribute values of each of the features in a feature layer. This allows you to fine-tune the information that is displayed on the terrain or create a new project layer or file based on the filtered layer. For example, you could display only towns in Western Europe, which exceed a certain population, or export to a new layer only countries whose GNP per capita surpasses a certain amount. More about: Attribute queries >