The array elements which describe the spatial relation between the query geometry and the requested geometries. There are 9 chars in this string which can be either 'F', 'T' or '*'; e.g., TT*FFT***' represents CONTAIN.（字符串中有9个字符，每个字符可以是F,T,或者*，例如：TT*FFT***表达了包含）
Description
A nine character string containing describing the spatial relationships to be tested by the spatial filter. Required when setting the SpatialRel property to use the esriSpatialRelRelation enumerator.
Remarks
The SpatialRelDescription allows the comparison of any spatial relationship between two geometries. A spatial relationship is defined by the intersections between the boundary, interior, and exterior of the query geometry and the requested geometry.（空间关系用查询几何体和被请求的几何体的边界，内部，外部之间的相交关系来定义）
All of the spatial relationships defined by the esriSpatialRelEnum enumeration can be duplicated using this property.
Interior:
The interior of a shape is defined as the entire shape
minus its boundary. All shapes have interior.
Boundary:
Linear and
area shapes have boundaries, but point shapes do not. The boundary of linear
shapes consists of the end points of all linear parts. The boundary of area
shapes consists of the linear boundary of the polygon shell(s).
Exterior:
The area outside a shape. All shapes have an exterior.
Each element for the first shape, the query geometry, may be tested against each element of the second shape, the requested geometry, giving nine possible spatial intersections as listed in the table below:
| Query Geometry | Requested Geometry | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | interior | interior |
| 2 | interior | boundary |
| 3 | interior | exterior |
| 4 | boundary | interior |
| 5 | boundary | boundary |
| 6 | boundary | exterior |
| 7 | exterior | interior |
| 8 | exterior | boundary |
| 9 | exterior | exterior |
The nine-characters string expected by
ISpatialFilter::SpatialRelDescription, is used to specify whether the
intersection of each of the elements in the array is true (T), false (F), or not
tested (*).
For instance, in 'FFFTTT***', relationships 1-3 must be false, relationships
4-6 must be true, and relationships 7-9 are not tested.
Note that
any two shapes' exteriors always intersect.
Example Strings
Shares a boundary: '****T****'（esri官方帮助中为：'****T***'，结尾少写一个*）
Shares a boundary and interiors
intersect: 'T***T****'
Shares a boundary and interiors do not intersect:
'F***T****'
Does not touch the boundary and interiors intersect:
'T***F****'
| Relation | Selection Geometry | Requested Geometry | String |
| Contains | Line | Line | TT*FFT*** |
| Contains | Point | Line | TT*FFT*** |
| Contains | Point | Point | T******** |
| Contains | Line | Poly | TT*FFT*** |
| Contains | Poly | Poly | TT*FFT*** |
| Crosses | Line | Line | TF*FF**** |
| Crosses | Poly | Line | TT**F**** |
| Crosses | Line | Poly | TT**T**** |
| Overlaps | Line | Line | TT*T***** |
| Overlaps | Point | Point | T******** |
| Overlaps | Poly | Poly | TT*T***** |
| Touch | Line | Line | FF*FT**** |
| Touch | Poly | Line | FF*FT**** |
| Touch | Line | Poly | FF*FT**** |
| Touch | Poly | Poly | FF*FT**** |
| Within | Line | Line | TF**F**** |
| Within | Point | Line | T******** |
| Within | Point | Point | T******** |
| Within | Line | Poly | TF**F**** |
| Within | Poly | Poly | TF**F**** |
For more information on this topic, see the Shape Comparison Language topics on the EDN web
site.