topic Re: Polygons to Points in ArcGIS Pro Questions

Polygons to Points

MichaelPickens — Fri, 15 Oct 2021 14:32:13 GMT

Is their a way to take Polygons and make them into points where they have to stay within the boundaries. When I do this for tracts they fall outside of the boundaries and if I go to spatially join them again then it misses those points.

I have the worst time trying to relate anything using tractids so this would be very useful.

Re: Polygons to Points

DataOfficer — Fri, 15 Oct 2021 14:34:49 GMT

Use Feature To Point: https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/latest/tool-reference/data-management/feature-to-point.htm

Tick the Inside option to keep the point within the polygon (where a centroid would otherwise fall outside of the polygon).

Re: Polygons to Points

MichaelPickens — Fri, 15 Oct 2021 14:45:52 GMT

That is awesome but how do I get the Latitude and Longitude for that point?

Re: Polygons to Points

MichaelPickens — Fri, 15 Oct 2021 14:50:23 GMT

Ignore that I figured it out. Add XY Coordinates was the answer.

Re: Polygons to Points

curtvprice — Fri, 15 Oct 2021 14:52:34 GMT

Try the Add Geometry Attributes tool.

Re: Polygons to Points

curtvprice — Fri, 15 Oct 2021 14:55:31 GMT

Only if your features are in geographic. The other tool has more options, including calculating other geometric properties and projecting to another coordinate system before recording the geometry (so you can get decimal degrees when the feature class is in UTM meters for example).