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ui.Map.DrawingTools.toFeatureCollection
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Returns a feature collection in which each geometry in the drawing tools is a feature.
| Usage | Returns | DrawingTools.toFeatureCollection(indexProperty) | FeatureCollection |
| Argument | Type | Details | this: ui.map.drawingtools | ui.Map.DrawingTools | The ui.Map.DrawingTools instance. |
indexProperty | String | A property with this name will be assigned to every feature in the returned collection. The value of the property will be a number that corresponds to the index of the geometry layer to which the geometry belongs. |
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Last updated 2023-10-06 UTC.
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