topic Re: Arcade function "distance" gives values below zeros in ArcGIS Pro Questions

Arcade function "distance" gives values below zeros

Hala_Ghareeb — Mon, 03 Apr 2023 12:16:28 GMT

Hi all,

I face an issue with Arcade in "Calculate Field"

I was trying to calculate the distance between two features, but it gives me numbers like: 3.06370662743992E-03, 2.1836948170503E-04, .... as in image(1)

after applying Floor (value, 4) it gives numbers like:0.0228, 0.003, .... as in image(2)

I want to have the distances in meters, and I am sure that all the distances are more than zero.

Re: Arcade function "distance" gives values below zeros

DanPatterson — Mon, 03 Apr 2023 12:24:25 GMT

Are you using a projected coordinate system?

Re: Arcade function "distance" gives values below zeros

KenBuja — Mon, 03 Apr 2023 14:28:55 GMT

Numbers like 3.06370662743992E-03 are not below zero. They are in scientific notation, which is equivalent to 0.00306370662743992.

If you'd like to make sure you don't get numbers like that, you can use the Text function to return numbers at a set number of decimal places.

Re: Arcade function "distance" gives values below zeros

DavidPike — Mon, 03 Apr 2023 17:33:02 GMT

var dist = DistanceGeodetic($feature, w_point, 'meters')