Working with buffer analysis

- Creating buffers around selected GIS features…are useful for proximity analysis.…For example, you can buffer a river segment…by 50 feet and use that buffer…to choose the trees that are protected by a riparian zone.…Let's try a buffer.…Going to drag and drop the zoning into the current map,…going to change my view, zoom in to a particular area.…I'm going to buffer this parcel right here in the middle.…So I'm going to go into Analyse, Feature Buffer,…I'm going to select a feature, this one right here,…for center, I'm going to buffer it 50 meters,…and I'll just put it onto a layer called Buffer.…

And I don't need to merge.…If you're buffering multiple objects,…you can merge all the buffers…into one larger object that touch.…Let's hit Okay.…So a new buffer layer appears in my display manager…and a new buffer object shows up.…What we're going to do is, we're going to use…a Query to Filter Data to only bring in…the polygons that are within or touching that buffer.…I'm going to right-click on Zoning,…I'm going to use Query to Filter Data,…