{"id":2739142,"date":"2025-04-01T08:00:03","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T15:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/?post_type=blog&#038;p=2739142"},"modified":"2026-02-11T07:43:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T15:43:26","slug":"harness-the-full-potential-of-near-me-for-spatial-analysis","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/experience-builder\/mapping\/harness-the-full-potential-of-near-me-for-spatial-analysis","title":{"rendered":"Harness the full potential of Near Me for spatial analysis"},"author":9772,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":""},"categories":[23341,22941],"tags":[400012,42641,778972,25631],"industry":[],"product":[36571,400032,36551],"class_list":["post-2739142","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-analytics","category-mapping","tag-arcgis-experience-builder","tag-arcgis-online","tag-near-me","tag-spatial-analysis","product-arcgis-enterprise","product-experience-builder","product-arcgis-online"],"acf":{"authors":[{"ID":9772,"user_firstname":"Alix","user_lastname":"Vezina","nickname":"Alix Vezina","user_nicename":"avezina","display_name":"Alix V\u00e9zina","user_email":"avezina@esri.com","user_url":"","user_registered":"2019-07-19 18:00:55","user_description":"Alix is a product engineer in web development at Esri, where she delivers innovative web mapping tools for various industries. She\u2019s passionate about customer success and combines her knowledge with practical experience to help solve problems and empower others to develop impactful applications that provide essential functionality.","user_avatar":"<img data-del=\"avatar\" src='https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Alix-Vezina-Prefered-213x200.jpg' class='avatar pp-user-avatar avatar-96 photo ' height='96' width='96'\/>"}],"short_description":"Learn how to configure the Near Me widget in ArcGIS Experience Builder to answer location-based questions.","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p>Does your team need to estimate how many customers may be impacted in a water shutoff area? Or maybe they need to locate the nearest hospital to an incident? Perhaps they\u2019re on the hunt for a list of all the street trees in a city, categorized by their genus and species? Or, they&#8217;re trying to figure out how many miles of roads were submerged during a recent flood?<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":2742212,"id":2742212,"title":"NM-All-Apps","filename":"NM-All-Apps.gif","filesize":9923690,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/03\/NM-All-Apps.gif","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/experience-builder\/mapping\/harness-the-full-potential-of-near-me-for-spatial-analysis\/nm-all-apps","alt":"","author":"9772","description":"","caption":"","name":"nm-all-apps","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":2739142,"date":"2025-03-28 20:55:33","modified":"2025-03-28 20:55:33","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/gif","type":"image","subtype":"gif","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1500,"height":852,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/03\/NM-All-Apps-213x200.gif","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":200,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/03\/NM-All-Apps.gif","medium-width":460,"medium-height":261,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/03\/NM-All-Apps.gif","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":436,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/03\/NM-All-Apps.gif","large-width":1500,"large-height":852,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/03\/NM-All-Apps.gif","1536x1536-width":1500,"1536x1536-height":852,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/03\/NM-All-Apps.gif","2048x2048-width":1500,"2048x2048-height":852,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/03\/NM-All-Apps-819x465.gif","card_image-width":819,"card_image-height":465,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/03\/NM-All-Apps.gif","wide_image-width":1500,"wide_image-height":852}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":"https:\/\/experience.arcgis.com\/experience\/10e88d40c6d6455e8c9d0f7daf36261d"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p>The Near Me widget in Experience Builder quickly answers location-based questions. It can help you find and analyze features within a specified distance from various inputs, such as an address, selected features, a sketch, or the current map extent.<\/p>\n<p>In this blog, you&#8217;ll learn how to configure the Near Me widget in your apps to help answer these questions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"#Hospitals\">Which hospital is closest to my current address?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#Outage\">Which customers are impacted by the outage?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#Trees\">Which street trees are found in the city?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#Flood\">How many miles of roads are flooded?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<hr \/>\n<h2 style=\"background-color: #404040\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff\"><strong>\u00a0About the Near Me widget<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There are four steps to get started with the Near Me widget:<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 22px\"><strong>1 | Determine what you would like to do<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Near Me widget supports analysis for workflows that fit within one of these four categories, with some examples:<\/p>\n<table style=\"font-size: 18px\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th style=\"background-color: #007f94\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff\"><strong>Find the closest feature<\/strong><\/span><\/th>\n<th style=\"background-color: #007f94\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff\"><strong>View all features in an area of interest<\/strong><\/span><\/th>\n<th style=\"background-color: #007f94\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff\"><strong>View a list of all features in a layer<\/strong><\/span><\/th>\n<th style=\"background-color: #007f94\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff\"><strong>Get attribute and geometry summaries<\/strong><\/span><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Find the nearest Park from a sketched location in the map.<\/td>\n<td>Determine which customers are impacted in an outage area.<\/td>\n<td>View a list of all National Parks in the United States and group them by state.<\/td>\n<td>Identify how many miles of roads are flooded.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Find the nearest Hospital from a searched address.<\/td>\n<td>View all gas stations within <em>n<\/em> miles of my location.<\/td>\n<td>View a list of all trees in the map and group them by genus and then by species.<\/td>\n<td>Determine the total number of beds available for hospitals within <em>n<\/em> miles of an impacted area.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>View all Trailheads in the current map area (extent).<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p style=\"font-size: 22px\"><strong>2 | Select the search method and inputs<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Allow users to search, sketch, or select a location or an area of interest for the analysis.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/04\/NM-SearchMethod-Inputs3.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 22px\"><strong>3 | Select the type of analysis<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Choose between Closest Feature, Proximity, or Summary analyses.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/03\/NM-analysis-diagrams2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/03\/NM-analysis-diagrams2.png\" alt=\"Diagrams portraying the different types of analysis in Near Me.\" width=\"12358\" height=\"5718\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 22px\"><strong>4 | Determine how to display the results<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Choose to display the results within the Near Me widget panel with groups, counts, and symbols, or configure the output data source as an input for other widgets to customize the display of the results.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/03\/NM-Results2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/03\/NM-Results2.png\" alt=\"Diagram portraying how results can be displayed either in the Near Me widget panel or in other widgets using the output data source.\" width=\"1625\" height=\"460\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<hr \/>\n<h2 style=\"background-color: #404040\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff\"><strong>\u00a0Configure the Near Me widget<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In the following examples, you will learn how to configure the Near Me widget to effectively answer each question. Open this app template to view the different configuration examples and create your own app: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/home\/item.html?id=496645b419814cf5b5443f01db17ba53\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Near Me for Spatial Analysis template<\/a><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"Hospitals\">Which hospital is closest to my current address?<\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"background-color: #007f94;font-size: 24px\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff\"><strong>\u00a0Find the closest feature<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>In this app, you can type an address in the Search widget and automatically get results for the nearest hospital within 5 miles of the searched location.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/experience.arcgis.com\/experience\/10e88d40c6d6455e8c9d0f7daf36261d\/page\/1?views=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>Open this app<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":2741752,"id":2741752,"title":"NM-App1","filename":"NM-App1.gif","filesize":6668043,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/03\/NM-App1.gif","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/experience-builder\/mapping\/harness-the-full-potential-of-near-me-for-spatial-analysis\/nm-app1","alt":"","author":"9772","description":"","caption":"","name":"nm-app1","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":2739142,"date":"2025-03-28 19:08:24","modified":"2025-03-28 19:08:24","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/gif","type":"image","subtype":"gif","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1160,"height":636,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/03\/NM-App1-213x200.gif","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":200,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/03\/NM-App1.gif","medium-width":464,"medium-height":254,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/03\/NM-App1.gif","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":421,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/03\/NM-App1.gif","large-width":1160,"large-height":636,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/03\/NM-App1.gif","1536x1536-width":1160,"1536x1536-height":636,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/03\/NM-App1.gif","2048x2048-width":1160,"2048x2048-height":636,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/03\/NM-App1-826x453.gif","card_image-width":826,"card_image-height":453,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/03\/NM-App1.gif","wide_image-width":1160,"wide_image-height":636}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":"https:\/\/experience.arcgis.com\/experience\/10e88d40c6d6455e8c9d0f7daf36261d\/page\/1?views=1"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<details>\n<summary style=\"color: #0079c5;cursor: pointer\"><strong>\u2193 <u>Expand configuration steps<\/u> \u2193<\/strong><\/summary>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 22px\"><strong>1 | Create a new Experience Builder app<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ol style=\"line-height: 1.5\">\n<li>Create a new app using this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/apps\/mapviewer\/index.html?webmap=66f33c5aa45b4f8ea7a5793f5831f19e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sample web map<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Add the <strong>Near Me<\/strong> widget to your app and ensure it&#8217;s connected to your map.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 22px\"><strong>2 | Configure the Analysis Settings<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ol style=\"line-height: 1.5\">\n<li><strong>Search Method<\/strong> &gt; <em>Specify a location<\/em>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Search distance<\/strong> and <strong>Distance unit<\/strong>s &gt; <em>5 miles<\/em> \u2013 choose a distance based on how far you\u2019d be willing to travel to get to the nearest hospital. This distance is Euclidean (aka. calculated as the crow flies).<br \/>\n<em>Note: You can add the Directions widget to your app to calculate the driving or walking travel distance.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Inputs<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Distance settings<\/strong>: <em>checked<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 this will allow you to change the search distance to expand it in case there aren\u2019t any hospitals within 5 miles.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sketch tools<\/strong>: all <em>off<\/em> \u2013 without any sketch tools, you\u2019ll need another way to set the search location:\n<ul>\n<li>Add a <strong>Search<\/strong> widget to your app and configure a <strong>Message action<\/strong> to <strong>Set location<\/strong> in the <strong>Near Me<\/strong> widget when the <strong>Record selection changes<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"font-size: 22px\"><strong>3 | Select the Analysis Type<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Configure an analysis for the Hospitals layer in the map.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ol style=\"line-height: 1.5\">\n<li>Click <strong>Add Analysis<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Analysis Type<\/strong> &gt; <em>Closest Feature<\/em> &#8211; in this case, the analysis will return the hospital point closest to the searched location, within the defined 5-mile distance.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Highlight results on the map<\/strong>: <em>on<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Expand analysis results<\/strong>: <em>on<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 22px\"><strong>4 | Display the Results<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When using the <strong>Closest Feature<\/strong> analysis, you\u2019ll only get one result, or none if there aren\u2019t any features within the defined search distance. Here are some options to make the display of results clear and more intuitive:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"line-height: 1.5\">\n<li><strong>Feature count<\/strong>: <em>unchecked<\/em> \u2013 since there&#8217;s only one result, the count is not needed.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Map symbols<\/strong>: <em>checked<\/em> \u2013 show the hospital symbol to help users connect the symbol in the results panel with the one on the map.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Approximate distance<\/strong>: <em>checked<\/em> \u2013 indicates the distance from the searched location to the nearest hospital.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Filter layers to only show results<\/strong>: <em>checked<\/em> \u2013 hides all other hospital features in the map and only shows the nearest one.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"color: #0079c5\"><a href=\"#Hospitals\"><strong><u>\u2191 Back to top<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<hr \/>\n<h2 id=\"Outage\">Which customers are impacted by the outage?<\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"background-color: #007f94;font-size: 24px\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff\"><strong>\u00a0View all features in an area of interest<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>In this app, you can draw an outage area to determine which customers will be impacted by a service outage.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/experience.arcgis.com\/experience\/10e88d40c6d6455e8c9d0f7daf36261d\/page\/-2?views=-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>Open this app<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":2742022,"id":2742022,"title":"NM-App2-2","filename":"NM-App2-2.gif","filesize":2939860,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/03\/NM-App2-2.gif","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/experience-builder\/mapping\/harness-the-full-potential-of-near-me-for-spatial-analysis\/nm-app2-2","alt":"","author":"9772","description":"","caption":"","name":"nm-app2-2","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":2739142,"date":"2025-03-28 19:58:10","modified":"2025-03-28 20:02:37","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/gif","type":"image","subtype":"gif","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1160,"height":694,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/03\/NM-App2-2-213x200.gif","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":200,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/03\/NM-App2-2.gif","medium-width":436,"medium-height":261,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/03\/NM-App2-2.gif","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":459,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/03\/NM-App2-2.gif","large-width":1160,"large-height":694,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/03\/NM-App2-2.gif","1536x1536-width":1160,"1536x1536-height":694,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/03\/NM-App2-2.gif","2048x2048-width":1160,"2048x2048-height":694,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/03\/NM-App2-2-777x465.gif","card_image-width":777,"card_image-height":465,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/03\/NM-App2-2.gif","wide_image-width":1160,"wide_image-height":694}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":"https:\/\/experience.arcgis.com\/experience\/10e88d40c6d6455e8c9d0f7daf36261d\/page\/-2?views=-2"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<details>\n<summary style=\"color: #0079c5;cursor: pointer\"><strong>\u2193 <u>Expand configuration steps<\/u> \u2193<\/strong><\/summary>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 22px\"><strong>1 | Create a new Experience Builder app<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ol style=\"line-height: 1.5\">\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ol style=\"line-height: 1.5\">\n<li>Create a new app using this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/apps\/mapviewer\/index.html?webmap=31a4825203f045cebaaee9599feb1ecd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sample web map<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ol style=\"line-height: 1.5\">\n<li>Add the <strong>Near Me<\/strong> widget to your app and ensure it&#8217;s connected to your map.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 22px\"><strong>2 | Configure the Analysis Settings<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol style=\"line-height: 1.5\">\n<li><strong>Search Method<\/strong> &gt; <em>Specify a location<\/em>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Search distance <\/strong>and <strong>Distance units<\/strong> &gt; <em>0 miles<\/em> \u2013 constrain the search to the sketched area without an extra buffer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Change the<strong> Heading label<\/strong> to something more meaningful to guide the users of your app.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Inputs<\/strong>\n<ul style=\"line-height: 1.5\">\n<li><strong>Distance settings<\/strong>: <em>unchecked<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Input location label<\/strong>: <em>unchecked<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Sketch tools<\/strong>: Point: <em>off<\/em>, Polyline: <em>off<\/em>, Polygon: <em>on<\/em> \u2013 allow users to sketch an area in the map.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"font-size: 22px\"><strong>3 | Select the Analysis Type<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Configure a new analysis for the Addresses layer in the map.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ol style=\"line-height: 1.5\">\n<li>Click <strong>Add Analysis<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Analysis Type<\/strong> &gt; <em>Proximity<\/em> &#8211; in this case, the analysis will return all address points intersecting with the sketched area since the search distance is set to &#8220;0&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Display field<\/strong> &gt; <em>FULLADDR<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Sort features<\/strong> &gt; <strong>Field<\/strong> &gt; <em>FULLADDR<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Highlight results on the map<\/strong>: <em>off<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Expand analysis results<\/strong>: <em>on<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 22px\"><strong>4 | Display the Results<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When using the <strong>Proximity<\/strong> analysis, you\u2019ll get all the features within the defined area or distance. Here are some options to make the display of results clear and more intuitive:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"line-height: 1.5\">\n<li><strong>Feature count<\/strong>: <em>checked<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Map symbols<\/strong>: <i>optional<\/i><\/li>\n<li><strong>Approximate distance<\/strong>: <em>unchecked<\/em> \u2013 all address points are within the sketched area, so the distance is always &#8220;0&#8221; miles.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Filter layers to only show results<\/strong>: <em>checked<\/em> \u2013 filters out all address points outside the area.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"color: #0079c5\"><a href=\"#Outage\"><strong><u>\u2191 Back to top<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<hr \/>\n<h2 id=\"Trees\">Which street trees are found in the city?<\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"background-color: #007f94;font-size: 24px\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff\"><strong>\u00a0View a list of all features in a layer<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>In this app, you can view a list of all tree features from a layer in the map, grouped by genus and species.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/experience.arcgis.com\/experience\/10e88d40c6d6455e8c9d0f7daf36261d\/page\/-3?views=-3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>Open this app<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":2742052,"id":2742052,"title":"NM-App3","filename":"NM-App3.gif","filesize":1317385,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/03\/NM-App3.gif","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/experience-builder\/mapping\/harness-the-full-potential-of-near-me-for-spatial-analysis\/nm-app3","alt":"","author":"9772","description":"","caption":"","name":"nm-app3","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":2739142,"date":"2025-03-28 20:11:20","modified":"2025-03-28 20:11:20","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/gif","type":"image","subtype":"gif","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1160,"height":692,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/03\/NM-App3-213x200.gif","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":200,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/03\/NM-App3.gif","medium-width":438,"medium-height":261,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/03\/NM-App3.gif","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":458,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/03\/NM-App3.gif","large-width":1160,"large-height":692,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/03\/NM-App3.gif","1536x1536-width":1160,"1536x1536-height":692,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/03\/NM-App3.gif","2048x2048-width":1160,"2048x2048-height":692,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/03\/NM-App3-779x465.gif","card_image-width":779,"card_image-height":465,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/03\/NM-App3.gif","wide_image-width":1160,"wide_image-height":692}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":"https:\/\/experience.arcgis.com\/experience\/10e88d40c6d6455e8c9d0f7daf36261d\/page\/-3?views=-3"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<details>\n<summary style=\"color: #0079c5;cursor: pointer\"><strong>\u2193 <u>Expand configuration steps<\/u> \u2193<\/strong><\/summary>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 22px\"><strong>1 | Create a new Experience Builder app<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ol style=\"line-height: 1.5\">\n<li>Create a new app using this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/apps\/mapviewer\/index.html?webmap=854ba6251c2640ba924868d7fc10e62c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sample web map<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Add the <strong>Near Me<\/strong> widget to your app and ensure it&#8217;s connected to your map.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 22px\"><strong>2 | Configure the Analysis Settings<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ol style=\"line-height: 1.5\">\n<li><strong>Search Method<\/strong> &gt; <em>Current map area<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Change the <strong>Heading label<\/strong> to something more meaningful to guide the users of your app.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Include features outside map area<\/strong>: <em>on<\/em> \u2013 includes all the features in the layer, not only the ones within the map area.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 22px\"><strong>3 | Select the Analysis Type<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Configure a new analysis for the Trees layer in the map.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ol style=\"line-height: 1.5\">\n<li>Click <strong>Add Analysis<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Analysis Type<\/strong> &gt; <em>Proximity <\/em>&#8211; in this case, the analysis will return all tree points in the layer, since you&#8217;re analyzing the map area and including the features outside the map area.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Display field<\/strong> &gt; <em>Common name<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Sort features<\/strong> &gt; <strong>Field<\/strong> &gt; <em>Common name<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Group features<\/strong>: <em>on<\/em> &gt; by <em>Genus<\/em> and then by <em>Species<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Expand analysis results<\/strong>: <em>on<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 22px\"><strong>4 | Display the Results<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When using the <strong>Proximity<\/strong> analysis, you\u2019ll get all the features within the defined search area or, in this case, all the features in the Trees layer. Here are some options to make the display of results clear and more intuitive:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"line-height: 1.5\">\n<li><strong>Feature count<\/strong>: <em>checked<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Map symbols<\/strong>: <i>optional<\/i><\/li>\n<li><em>Uncheck<\/em> all other options<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"color: #0079c5\"><a href=\"#Trees\"><strong><u>\u2191 Back to top<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<hr \/>\n<h2 id=\"Flood\">How many miles of roads are flooded?<\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"background-color: #007f94;font-size: 24px\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff\"><strong>\u00a0Get attribute and geometry summaries<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>In this app, you can select a flood area and receive a summary of the total length of all roads that intersect with that area.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/experience.arcgis.com\/experience\/10e88d40c6d6455e8c9d0f7daf36261d\/page\/-4?views=-4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>Open this app<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":2742152,"id":2742152,"title":"NM-App4","filename":"NM-App4.gif","filesize":1566192,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/03\/NM-App4.gif","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/experience-builder\/mapping\/harness-the-full-potential-of-near-me-for-spatial-analysis\/nm-app4","alt":"","author":"9772","description":"","caption":"","name":"nm-app4","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":2739142,"date":"2025-03-28 20:38:16","modified":"2025-03-28 20:38:16","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/gif","type":"image","subtype":"gif","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1160,"height":692,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/03\/NM-App4-213x200.gif","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":200,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/03\/NM-App4.gif","medium-width":438,"medium-height":261,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/03\/NM-App4.gif","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":458,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/03\/NM-App4.gif","large-width":1160,"large-height":692,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/03\/NM-App4.gif","1536x1536-width":1160,"1536x1536-height":692,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/03\/NM-App4.gif","2048x2048-width":1160,"2048x2048-height":692,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/03\/NM-App4-779x465.gif","card_image-width":779,"card_image-height":465,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/03\/NM-App4.gif","wide_image-width":1160,"wide_image-height":692}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":"https:\/\/experience.arcgis.com\/experience\/10e88d40c6d6455e8c9d0f7daf36261d\/page\/-4?views=-4"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<details>\n<summary style=\"color: #0079c5;cursor: pointer\"><strong>\u2193 <u>Expand configuration steps<\/u> \u2193<\/strong><\/summary>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 22px\"><strong>1 | Create a new Experience Builder app<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ol style=\"line-height: 1.5\">\n<li>Create a new app using this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/apps\/mapviewer\/index.html?webmap=12d502fb328b4e988fefb78a436baa6f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sample web map<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Add the <strong>Near Me<\/strong> widget to your app and ensure it&#8217;s connected to your map.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 22px\"><strong>2 | Configure the Analysis Settings<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ol style=\"line-height: 1.5\">\n<li><strong>Search Method<\/strong> &gt; <em>Specify a location<\/em>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Search distance <\/strong>and <strong>Distance units<\/strong> &gt; <em>0 miles<\/em> \u2013 constrain the search to the selected area without an extra buffer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Change the<strong> Heading label<\/strong> to something more meaningful to guide the users of your app.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Inputs<\/strong>\n<ul style=\"line-height: 1.5\">\n<li><strong>Distance settings<\/strong>: <em>unchecked<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Input location label<\/strong>: <em>unchecked<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Sketch tools<\/strong>: all <em>off <\/em>\u2013 without any sketch tools, you\u2019ll need another way to set the search area:\n<ul>\n<li>Configure\u00a0a <strong>Message action<\/strong> in the <strong>Map<\/strong> widget to <strong>Set location<\/strong> in the <strong>Near Me<\/strong> widget when the <strong>Record selection changes<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"font-size: 22px\"><strong>3 | Select the Analysis Type<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Configure a new analysis for the Local Roads layer in the map.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ol style=\"line-height: 1.5\">\n<li>Click <strong>Add Analysis<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Analysis Type<\/strong> &gt; 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