{"id":7076,"date":"2022-07-18T15:49:12","date_gmt":"2022-07-18T13:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usemaps.com\/kb\/uncategorized\/buffer-tool\/"},"modified":"2022-07-18T15:49:12","modified_gmt":"2022-07-18T13:49:12","slug":"buffer-tool","status":"publish","type":"knowledgebase","link":"https:\/\/usemaps.com\/en\/usemaps-documentation\/definitions\/buffer-tool\/","title":{"rendered":"Buffer Tool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Attribute Table Tool<\/p>\n<p>The Buffer tool allows you to create a buffer of a specified radius around selected objects.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4756\" src=\"https:\/\/usemaps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/bufor.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"640\"><\/p>\n<h3>How It Works:<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li>Select the objects (they should be highlighted in yellow). A buffer can be created for up to 5000 objects at a time. <\/li>\n<li>Select the tool from the Attribute Table Toolbar<\/li>\n<li>Enter the buffer value in meters or select the attribute where you store the buffer values you want to generate.<\/li>\n<li>Click Run<\/li>\n<li>A polygon object containing the buffer will appear on the Map. It can be saved as a separate Data Source, downloaded as an SHP file, or merged into a single object<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attribute Table Tool The Buffer tool allows you to create a buffer of a specified radius around selected objects. How It Works: Select the objects (they should be highlighted in yellow). A buffer can be created for up to 5000 objects at a time. Select the tool from the Attribute Table Toolbar Enter the buffer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","knowledgebase_cat":[83],"knowledgebase_tag":[],"class_list":["post-7076","knowledgebase","type-knowledgebase","status-publish","hentry","knowledgebase_cat-definitions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usemaps.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledgebase\/7076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usemaps.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledgebase"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usemaps.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/knowledgebase"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usemaps.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usemaps.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usemaps.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledgebase\/7076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usemaps.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"knowledgebase_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usemaps.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledgebase_cat?post=7076"},{"taxonomy":"knowledgebase_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usemaps.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledgebase_tag?post=7076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}