Features/areas in the Community Analyst data layers are often identified by standardized FIPS codes. Alternatively, they may be identified in the Community Analyst data layers by some other ID. Standard Geographies by Attributes can be used to look up these IDs.

Some applications of Standard Geographies by Attributes include the following:

• Suppose particular named geographic areas or regions have been identified by stakeholders for analysis. Given the partial or complete names of these areas of interest, Standard Geographies by Attributes can be used to look up their corresponding FIPS codes in order to specify the particular areas of interest in other analyses such as Summary Reports.
• United States Postal Services (USPS) ZIP code prefixes are a 3-digit code associated with USPS Sectional Center Facilities (SCFs). These SCFs generally represent a particular USPS geographic service area such as a city or a part of a city. Standard Geographies by Attributes can be used to look up the ZIP codes containing a 3-digit string. For example, the ZIP code prefix 065 is associated with the USPS SCF for New Haven, Connecticut. In this particular case, every single ZIP code in New Haven is associated with the SCF. By using Standard Geographies by Attributes and specifying the query string 065 on the Community Analyst ZIP code data layer, a complete list of ZIP codes for the city of New Haven will be included in the output response along with all other ZIP codes containing the 065 string. In subsequent analysis, these ZIP code IDs that begin with "065" can be used to specify all New Haven ZIP codes in a Summary Reports analysis task using a StandardLayer.

The result of this task is an array of StdGeographiesFeature items containing IDs and names of all of the feature/area names and their corresponding IDs that satisfy the string-based query on the data layer. After looking up these IDs, they may be used to specify one or more geographic features/areas in a Summary Reports analysis using the StandardLayer as the value for the Boundaries parameter.

System.Object
   ESRI.ArcGIS.Client.BACore.Client.AbstractTask
      ESRI.ArcGIS.Client.BACore.Client.BATask<TResult,TEventArgs>
         ESRI.ArcGIS.Client.BAO.Tasks.BAOnlineTask<TResult>
            ESRI.ArcGIS.Client.BAO.Tasks.StdGeographies.StdGeographiesByAttributesTask

Target Platforms: Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0, Windows Millennium Edition, Windows 2000, Windows XP Home Edition, Windows XP Professional, Windows Server 2003 family, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 family

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