topic service areas in ArcGIS Network Analyst Questions

service areas

RaquelSaraiva2 — Fri, 29 Sep 2017 16:15:20 GMT

Hello again,

Now im in doubt because i'm doing service areas for two countries. The results are so different in shape.

As you can see by the left image, the areas are in circle, otherwise the right image we have square areas.

Why is this happening? Can you help me?

Thanks in advance.

Re: service areas

DanPatterson_Retired — Fri, 29 Sep 2017 16:17:32 GMT

if you did it the same way using the same criteria, that might mean that the road networks of the two countries differ in their general configuration. Or... you did something differently. Or both. You will have to backtrack from your assumption that the patterns should generate similar geometry

Re: service areas

RaquelSaraiva2 — Fri, 29 Sep 2017 16:25:05 GMT

Im having "problemas" with my osm roads data.

Is there any tutorial with the steps to do with roads shapefile to have a network?

Re: service areas

DanPatterson_Retired — Fri, 29 Sep 2017 16:45:55 GMT

try to emulate the steps here

http://desktop.arcgis.com/en/arcmap/latest/extensions/network-analyst/about-the-network-analyst-tutorial-exercises.htm

Re: service areas

JoeBorgione — Fri, 29 Sep 2017 17:02:07 GMT

Take a look at : Network dataset It includes a discussion of OSM data.

As trusted colleague Chris Donohue, GISP‌ likes to say Network Analysis = 1% Analysis + 99% Data Cleanup

Re: service areas

ChrisDonohue__GISP — Fri, 29 Sep 2017 17:56:09 GMT

My first guess would be as Dan Patterson surmised, that the analysis was run with different settings. In particular, were the Polygon Generation settings the same between both runs? The Polygon Type and Trim Polygon settings can make a large difference in the output.

As Joe Borgione suggested, there are is some information available on how to work with OSM data. I don't know quite so much about this aspect, but this gentleman at Esri does, so let me tag him in case he can offer some more insight: Jay Sandhu

If connectivity in the network has come up as an issue, consider running Topology on the source data used to create the network dataset (if you have that available) to find any disconnects. Note that it is common to run into disconnects in street data, as often the data was created with CAD, which does not snap the line ends to be coincident.

In terms of building a functional network dataset, this Esri link is very helpful for the workflow and the various aspects one has to consider:

Creating a network dataset—Help | ArcGIS for Desktop

Chris Donohue, GISP

Re: service areas

ChrisDonohue__GISP — Fri, 29 Sep 2017 19:19:48 GMT

If you do find that data cleanup will be needed, consider downloading and installing this plug-in by GeoNet contributor timw1984 as a handy means to detect issues in your street linework.

Topology Check Python AddIn (6/30/17)

Chris Donohue, GISP