topic Re: Analyze Polygon Width At A Certain Point in ArcGIS Pro Questions

Analyze Polygon Width At A Certain Point

MikeMadson — Tue, 28 Jun 2022 15:42:33 GMT

I am hoping to be able to analyze the width of a polygon at a certain point, such as a certain distance from a particular feature or from an edge of the polygon I am hoping to analyze. How can I do this with many polygons quickly and not have to do it manually, and be able to add the output as a new field in an attribute table? How do I do this? Does it involve scripts and/or models? I use ArcGIS Pro. I was using version 2.9.3, until updating to version 3.0.0 on Tuesday, June 28, 2022.

Re: Analyze Polygon Width At A Certain Point

jcarlson — Thu, 23 Jun 2022 16:45:01 GMT

What kind of polygons are these? A notion of "width" might make sense with rectangular polygons, but I think you're going to run into some trouble reliably identifying the "axis" along which this width is measured, especially if the polygons have irregular shapes.

Re: Analyze Polygon Width At A Certain Point

DanPatterson — Thu, 23 Jun 2022 17:31:32 GMT

What are you trying to quantify specifically?

How does the start location enter into it?

How is distance important?

Are the polygonal features directionally aligned as a group?

Do you have an image of some sample polygons that you are dealing with?

Re: Analyze Polygon Width At A Certain Point

MikeMadson — Fri, 24 Jun 2022 20:33:00 GMT

The polygons are close to rectangles, but are irregular. Here is a picture of some of those polygons.

Re: Analyze Polygon Width At A Certain Point

DanPatterson — Thu, 23 Jun 2022 23:02:43 GMT

try Minimum Bounding Geometry (Data Management)—ArcGIS Pro | Documentation

using Rectangle by width.