topic Re: Density of points in ArcGIS Pro Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/density-of-points/m-p/687814#M30405 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Thanks I will experiment some and see what I can find out.</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 27 Apr 2020 12:21:49 GMT Lebowski 2020-04-27T12:21:49Z Density of points https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/density-of-points/m-p/687808#M30399 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I have a couple point feature classes, where many of the points are fairly close to one another, does anyone have any good suggestions on how to calculate get the density/numbers of points within a specific area?</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 27 Apr 2020 11:14:36 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/density-of-points/m-p/687808#M30399 Lebowski 2020-04-27T11:14:36Z Re: Density of points https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/density-of-points/m-p/687809#M30400 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi Chad, you may want to search for Point Density and Kernel Density, they are similar but there are important differences between them.</P><P>If you want to use an aggregation method, I personally like to generate a grid of spatial bins, then count how many points are within each bin using the Spatial Join tool. Generate Tesselation is a great tool which can also produce a hexagonal grid of bins (Hexagons are the most complex regular shape that can be tessellated, and have equidistant centres to all their neighbours!).</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 27 Apr 2020 11:36:04 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/density-of-points/m-p/687809#M30400 DavidPike 2020-04-27T11:36:04Z Re: Density of points https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/density-of-points/m-p/687810#M30401 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Thanks for the response David! I have been experimenting with the Point Density tool but the raster output seems a little cumbersome to work with and I cannot seem to build and/or generate a attribute table for the data. I have attached a image of the points I am trying to create density for.&nbsp;</P><P></P><P>&nbsp;<IMG alt="Purple Points are the points I am trying to create density for" class="jive-emoji image-1 jive-image j-img-original" src="https://community.esri.com/legacyfs/online/490070_PointDen.jpg" /></P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 27 Apr 2020 11:52:16 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/density-of-points/m-p/687810#M30401 Lebowski 2020-04-27T11:52:16Z Re: Density of points https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/density-of-points/m-p/687811#M30402 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Ah ok, those raster density outputs aren't really designed for attribution in a tabular form.</P><P>I'd highly recommend making that grid of hexagons (play about with the size you want) then do a spatial join based on those points.</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 27 Apr 2020 12:04:05 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/density-of-points/m-p/687811#M30402 DavidPike 2020-04-27T12:04:05Z Re: Density of points https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/density-of-points/m-p/687812#M30403 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Is there a specific tool that you use to create the Hexagons?</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 27 Apr 2020 12:10:36 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/density-of-points/m-p/687812#M30403 Lebowski 2020-04-27T12:10:36Z Re: Density of points https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/density-of-points/m-p/687813#M30404 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>absolutely,</P><P><A class="link-titled" href="https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/tool-reference/data-management/generatetesellation.htm" title="https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/tool-reference/data-management/generatetesellation.htm">Generate Tessellation—Data Management toolbox | Documentation</A>&nbsp;</P><P></P><P>this may not be available on your version of arcmap if its quite old however. The fishnet tool would be useful if not.</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 27 Apr 2020 12:14:17 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/density-of-points/m-p/687813#M30404 DavidPike 2020-04-27T12:14:17Z Re: Density of points https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/density-of-points/m-p/687814#M30405 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Thanks I will experiment some and see what I can find out.</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 27 Apr 2020 12:21:49 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/density-of-points/m-p/687814#M30405 Lebowski 2020-04-27T12:21:49Z