Create a processing extent option?

[Hornbydd]

Dear Developer,

I have been experimenting with the MCDA4ArcMap tool with a fairly large dataset (>20,000 polygons) and this would be on the small size of any future processing I intend to do. It would be nice to see a use display as current processing extent option. This could be a check box in your config section. This would limit the analysis to the current display extent. Ideal for testing and exploring the weights before attempting to apply them to the entire dataset.

This option becomes significant when one is exploring large datasets and is interested in the current area before attempting to roll out the weighting to the full dataset. It would allow the various MCDA methods to execute significantly faster as they would only ever be processing a subset of a much larger dataset.

Hope this idea makes sense?

[crinner]

Duncan, that's a great idea. In my research, I am interested in "local" MCDA and such a function would help. As you can see, the project isn't currently under active development, but your interest encourages me to look into a new development iteration. Kind regards, Claus