idea flow maps: have movement/migration/flow arrows in ArcGIS Pro Ideas

flow maps: have movement/migration/flow arrows

KarlHennermann1 — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 11:26:37 GMT

ArcMap should have some way to create flow map arrows from attributes. Examples:

Re: flow maps: have movement/migration/flow arrows

DuncanHornby — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 11:51:10 GMT

Is this not simply drawing a polyline and just changing the symbology (line thickness, end symbol)?

Re: flow maps: have movement/migration/flow arrows

KarlHennermann1 — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 10:23:46 GMT

Hornbydd, your suggestion is to draw arrows manually as a polyline. This idea is about automating creatuion of the arrows. E.g. in Layer Properties > Symbology you could have a 'flow arrows overlay' symbology. There you would FROM and TO field identifiers, set arrow with and colours based on attibuites. The tool would then create the arrows as annotation.

Re: flow maps: have movement/migration/flow arrows

DarrenConnaghan — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 11:51:01 GMT

Great idea and really useful when a quick representation of movement is requierd (especially prescient when in the field with MapAction as time is limited)

Re: flow maps: have movement/migration/flow arrows

KarlHennermann1 — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 13:30:32 GMT

There ia a good approach - ironically by ESRI:
http://blogs.esri.com/esri/apl/2012/09/12/generating-distributive-flow-maps-with-arcgis/

Re: flow maps: have movement/migration/flow arrows

chandesrisbasile1 — Thu, 28 Aug 2014 13:52:52 GMT

http://blogs.esri.com/esri/apl/2013/08/26/flow-map-version-2/