Adding Study Areas to Polygon Layers

Adding Study Areas to Polygon Layers

Adding Study Areas to Polygon Layers

At Sitewise, we understand the importance of collaboration. When working on an analysis yourself, the My Project tab is a fantastic way to quickly review a site and manage your work. In addition to saving a polygon to your saved study areas, you can also save them to an existing layer in Sitewise. This makes each polygon accessible for review and refinement across all of your users in Sitewise by using familiar tools like our polygon shaping tools, streamlining collaboration and improving efficiency.

Use Cases

  1. I want to manually add polygons to my protected territories layer in Sitewise.
  2. I want to create a collection of related study areas and add attributes to them.

Saving Study Areas to a Polygon Layer

There are 2 different ways to save your study areas to a polygon layer: 
  1. Save to Study Areas before generating the study area in Sitewise
  2. Save to Study Areas after the study area has been created

Saving Study Areas to a Layer before generating them in Sitewise

  1. Select any study area tool to begin creating your study area. For this example, we will create a circle study area.
     
  2. After creating the study area, you will be brought to this study area screen:

  3. Select ‘Save’ and notice that a dropdown will appear which allows you to select the layer that you want to save the study area to:

  4. From the dropdown, select the polygon layer you want to save the study area to

    1. Don’t have a polygon table to add the study area to? No problem, find out how to create a polygon table from scratch here.
  5. Select "Search" to save the study area to the layer that you selected. 

Adding Existing Study Areas to your polygon layer

  1. To add an existing study area to your Saved Study areas:
    1. Select the study area's centroid
    2. Click the dropdown arrow

  2. Select the ‘Add to Layer’ tool

  3. From the dropdown, select the layer you want to save the study area to.
  4. Click ‘OK’ to save the study area to the layer.
For more information on managing the study area once it has been added to the polygon layer, check out our article on Managing your data in Sitewise.

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