topic Re: Heat Map in ArcGIS Insights Questions

Heat Map

Ed_ — Fri, 10 Jun 2022 18:19:51 GMT

Hi all,

Is there a way to create a heatmap from polygon data without having to convert polygon to point data?

Thank you,

Re: Heat Map

AkshayHarshe — Fri, 10 Jun 2022 19:59:20 GMT

Hi @Ed_,

There isn't a way to do so in Insights. May I understand your workflow and why would you need a heat map of polygons?

Re: Heat Map

Ed_ — Fri, 10 Jun 2022 21:49:22 GMT

I was wondering if it were possible to convert poly to points on the fly to create a heatmap.

Re: Heat Map

AkshayHarshe — Mon, 13 Jun 2022 14:41:40 GMT

Oh, I see what you mean. It usually needs calculating centroids and Insights doesn't do it at this time. Please submit an idea with your use case(s).

The best approach would be to have the centroids precalculated as a separate layer. If you don't wish to duplicate attributes just have a field that you can join back to your polygons. This way, you can use Joins within insights to create a single dataset that has both polygon and point geometry.