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  • The reason I opted for a feature layer is because you can run a SelectLayerByAttributes(inLayer, SelectionType, whereClause) followed by zoomToSelectedFeatures(). This technique is not available to .lyr files, only feature layers. Commented Apr 16, 2012 at 14:00