idea Cluster Rendering for ArcMap in ArcGIS Pro Ideas

Cluster Rendering for ArcMap

DouglasCaldwell — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 17:25:22 GMT

Cluster rendering was demonstrated at the Esri UC Plenary and looks like a great capability. Would like to see this renderer added to the desktop products.

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CattyannCampbell — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 18:34:07 GMT

I second that motion, I actually went looking to see how to do this is Desktop. Would be nice to have different shaped of clusters (hexaganol) and also throw in heat mapping while we're at it. Why should this just be an ArcGIS Online/ESRI Maps for MS Office function. Google lets you do this for free come on ESRI.

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StaffanstorpsKommun — Fri, 14 Mar 2014 12:28:07 GMT

We really need this feature!

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JohnDye — Thu, 13 Apr 2017 00:53:25 GMT

Great thought. Never going to happen. All new development is going to Pro. ArcMap is dying on the vine.

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KoryKramer — Fri, 09 Mar 2018 18:09:36 GMT

We've marked this as In Product Plan, but note that as John stated, this will be functionality going into ArcGIS Pro.

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Anneka_France — Tue, 04 Dec 2018 12:32:20 GMT

Is there a time frame for this update? Not having this tool is really frustrating. Would also like to see the symbology in the 'Summary Viewer' web app template made available in online maps or other configurable app templates.

Re: Cluster Rendering for ArcMap

KoryKramer — Tue, 04 Dec 2018 13:53:32 GMT

This functionality didn't make it into Pro 2.3 which will be out in January 2019. So hopefully in the release after that.

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Anneka_France — Tue, 15 Jan 2019 12:11:07 GMT

Thanks for the update. Do you know if they will be bringing this symbology to ArcGIS online? The current 'clustering' symbology doesn't work for most applications and doesn't allow you to add a count label. Would love to see something like the clustering tools in Google maps without having to create a custom application: GitHub - googlemaps/js-marker-clusterer: A marker clustering library for the Google Maps JavaScript API v3.

Re: Cluster Rendering for ArcMap

KoryKramer — Tue, 22 Jun 2021 09:03:23 GMT

Sounds like you're interested in https://community.esri.com/ideas/15015

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MikeCusi1 — Fri, 13 Sep 2019 03:34:53 GMT

I got Pro 2.4.1 but can't see it anywhere.

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AnninaHirschiWyss — Thu, 17 Oct 2019 06:45:41 GMT

Hi Kory Kramer‌, will it make it to 2.5? Will Multipoint FC be supported?

#point cluster‌

#dispersed points‌

#multipoint features‌

Re: Cluster Rendering for ArcMap

KoryKramer — Thu, 17 Oct 2019 13:14:19 GMT

This will not make it into 2.5. I don't know what the design plans are (or how much design might already be done around this) but it would be good to understand what the expectation might be for clustering multipoint data.

What does your multipoint data represent? How dispersed would the points be, what is an approximate range of number of points per feature? What would your expectation be about aggregating features to label the clusters in terms of count - show number of features, or number of points? All of this would be good context to consider during the design process.

Cheers

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AnninaHirschiWyss — Thu, 17 Oct 2019 15:59:15 GMT

Hi Kory,

Thanks for your reply. My multipoints are planned actions on e.g. railway stations (bicycle parking, park&ride, platform extension... with different priorities, so it's a symbology based on 2 fields), the same action plan can affect 2 different railway stations, therefore it was decided to use multipoint fc. There might be about 4-5 points at the same or very nearby location, and I would like to put the points on my (print) map so they do not overlap. I didn't find a solution with representations or symbology offset (not always the same type of points are clustered together and sometimes there are 2 with the same symbology) and I don't want to change the geometry of my features. I imagine something like the labelling offset with leader lines to the actual point.

I stumbled upon this post and was wondering if this could be a solution... I do not necessarily need to display the cluster information.

Cheers

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BrandonMcInnis — Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:41:26 GMT

I'm having a tough time understanding the logic behind a point clustering feature not included in an advanced application such as desktop Arcgis pro. This feature would be really helpful for some of my multi point maps projects. Open source QGIS has this functionality and it works quite decently. For the amount of money organizations pay for ersi licences, you'd think they'd cover this base. Sorry, perhaps this is harsh, but it's frustrating not to see it.

QGIS (Point clustering)

Seems like point cluster functionality is scattered around other esri platforms/plugins (mostly dynamic tools) but not necessary as requested in this post for desktop. Esri's plugin for Powerbi has it, but that's just a limited plugin and not an option in pro. ArcGIS Online has it, but not with a number label. Rather just a larger bubble with the number shown upon rollover. Not bad, but not as good as what is out there. Plus, this is a desktop request.

ESRI map plugin - PowerBI (point clustering)

Arcgis online - (point clustering on rollover)

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RichardHowe — Mon, 02 Mar 2020 11:33:18 GMT

Would love to see this feature. Not sure I really understand the delay, as Pro seems to almost exclusively focussed towards displaying data (at the expense of creating it) We have global point feature classes showing thousands of data points and something like this a great way of giving the impression of data spread globally and still allowing users to view individual data points at a more local scale

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JeffBishop — Wed, 19 Aug 2020 21:53:31 GMT

Kory Kramer‌ any news on this? Seems like something that should already be implemented for Pro.

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MichaelAmechi1 — Fri, 02 Oct 2020 13:45:13 GMT

Thanks Kory for directing me here. I would think that the best implementation of this feature would have custom color coding. I'm new to all this but, I thought Pro was the most advanced GIS package on the market?

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RichardHowe — Thu, 07 Jan 2021 16:00:38 GMT

Further to my comment last Feb I now notice that ArcGIS Pro has forced a "Display Limit Notification" warning message on us for AGOL data that exceeds an (as far as I can see unspecified) number of features. This message wasn't there in 2.6.

I am more than happy to use scale dependencies to get round this for lines and polygons, but once again the logicial way to get around it for point data all of a similar type is clustering.

Our customers will now get that annoying window every time they load one of our global point datasets. Please don't force this warning message/limit on us, without giving us the logical tools to prevent it!

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JoeBryant1 — Mon, 12 Apr 2021 22:45:47 GMT

@KoryKramer Any news on this? I'm very surprised to not have this functionality in Pro yet (2.7.0).

My use case: I have a point feature class that represents clients of our company, that were geocoded using zip code centroids. When displaying these points on a state-wide map, many of the points are too close together to display and label with a client number. I can create an inset map, but our marketing department would prefer I make a single large point for a metropolitan area and tie multiple client number labels to the single big point. I figure I will still need annotation for this, as point clustering typically has a single label representing the number of features being clustered together.

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TanuHoque — Wed, 14 Apr 2021 21:31:59 GMT

@JoeBryant1

We are actively working on supporting clustering in ArcGIS Pro and are hoping to release this sometime later this year or early next.

Having said that, if you’re working with an enterprise geodatabase, please look at Feature Binning which is another way to make meaningful maps out of overlapping points. This is not a replacement for clusters but might help users on this thread so we wanted to mention it.

Hope this helps!

Thanks