topic Separating points equally in ArcGIS Online Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-online-questions/separating-points-equally/m-p/759022#M37194 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I have a point feature I would like to separate into equally parts. I am trying to establish zones for data collection. How can I separate the points based solely on their geographic location and a desired count per zone?</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 07 Sep 2016 15:07:55 GMT TravisPreston2 2016-09-07T15:07:55Z Separating points equally https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-online-questions/separating-points-equally/m-p/759022#M37194 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I have a point feature I would like to separate into equally parts. I am trying to establish zones for data collection. How can I separate the points based solely on their geographic location and a desired count per zone?</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 07 Sep 2016 15:07:55 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-online-questions/separating-points-equally/m-p/759022#M37194 TravisPreston2 2016-09-07T15:07:55Z Re: Separating points equally https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-online-questions/separating-points-equally/m-p/759023#M37195 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>produce a file with the coordinates sorted lexicographically... first by X then by Y. &nbsp;split the list into your desired number. &nbsp;Whether the split is optimal depends on your point pattern and its distribution, which doesn't appear to be a criteria in your requirements. &nbsp;Another option, albeit a bit more difficult, is to produce a minimum spanning tree for the points, then prune the points on the branches into groups until your groups have been satisified. &nbsp;This produces a eucliean shortest path solution for each group</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 07 Sep 2016 15:25:25 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-online-questions/separating-points-equally/m-p/759023#M37195 DanPatterson_Retired 2016-09-07T15:25:25Z