Extract boundaries and buildings

Copy outlines of places and buildings from Felt's base data as polygon annotations you can style and edit.

Use the Extract tool to copy city, state, county, or building outlines from Felt's base data as polygon annotations.

Extract a boundary or building

1. Click Edit map. If you have Contribute access, click Contribute.

2. In the center of the toolbar at the top of the map, click Add to map, open Annotations, and click Extract .

3. Zoom to the level you want. The outline under the pointer is highlighted.

4. Click an outline to extract it. To extract several, Shift-drag across them.

Each outline becomes a polygon annotation named after the place. See Edit annotations.

The zoom level determines which outlines the Extract tool offers:

Level	Map zoom
Countries	Below 5
States/Regions	5 to under 8
Counties/Areas	8 to under 11
Cities	11 to under 14
Neighborhoods	14 to under 16
Buildings	16 and above

This video shows the Extract tool copying outlines from the map.

Extract features from a layer

The Extract tool uses only Felt's base data. To copy a layer feature, such as one county, as an annotation, click the feature. In its popup, click ···, then Duplicate to annotations. See Copy layer features to annotations.