topic Re: Measuring By Radius in ArcGIS Explorer Desktop Questions

Measuring By Radius

EugeneBoyd — Tue, 11 May 2010 16:44:10 GMT

Is it possible to measure in Explorer by using a radius instead of by a line or an area?

Re: Measuring By Radius

FabioPetaccia — Thu, 13 May 2010 08:24:05 GMT

Is it possible to measure in Explorer by using a radius instead of by a line or an area?

task "measure" does not satisfy you?

Re: Measuring By Radius

EugeneBoyd — Fri, 14 May 2010 15:41:17 GMT

A lot of my workflows involve radii rather than straight-line distances....just curious if there is something which would allow me to measure by radius.

Re: Measuring By Radius

MichaelBranscomb — Wed, 19 May 2010 13:03:35 GMT

Eugene,

Can you provide more information on your workflow - I'm not sure exactly what you mean by "measure by radius".

Regards

Mike

Re: Measuring By Radius

EugeneBoyd — Thu, 20 May 2010 20:45:31 GMT

Sure,....From a single point, it would be great if I could click and drag in any direction, and in real-time, have the distance from that point returned with the radius visually surrounding the point. So in all directions, I know when I am x miles away, then y miles away, or z miles away. The buffer tool is propbably the way to go, but I was hoping for a task that quickly returns info like the straight-line distane measure currently does.

Re: Measuring By Radius

MichaelBranscomb — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 08:23:33 GMT

Eugene,

Thanks for the clarification - I'll discuss with the Explorer team to see if there's anything in the existing API or new in the 1500 API that would allow someone to write a custom Add-In to do this. Unfortunately all the functionality for the next release is already decided so I don't think it's something we'll be able to include in the application out-of-the-box but I'll check.

Regards

Mike