Following on from this thread Re: Creating multiple non-overlapping buffers - Esri CommunityI've noticed that Centroid calculations for GCS features seem to be calculate as if the lat/lon coords were transcribed onto a cartesian plane i.e. Plate Carree and the Centroid calculated from that.
It all seems a bit off to me. Am I missing something obvious?
centroids are related to area as you probably already know (sometimes called center of mass)
There is no agreed upon method to calculate centroids, but a first step would be to use a projected coordinate system (area preserving is desired). If you aren't working on a country, or other large area basis, I would use projected data unless you have another reason not to.
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