topic Re: Nearest points in ArcGIS Pro Questions

Nearest points

RonBabcock — Mon, 07 May 2018 18:20:04 GMT

Hi all,

I have a basic license for ArcGIS Pro. I want to do the following:

: find the closest point from selected features in one layer to points in another layer.

: create a line between each of the sets of points

: calculate the distance and bearing of each line

I don't have access to the Near tool. Do I have to buy the Advanced version to get access to the Near tool or can you buy individual tools?

Thanks for any help you can provide.

Ron

Re: Nearest points

DanPatterson_Retired — Mon, 07 May 2018 18:56:47 GMT

I have a Near as Table variant in

Point Tools for Pro it doesn't use Near, it uses NumPy. Give it a whirl.

I also have code to do the rest, I just have to look around for it.

If you have a sample dataset (anonymized of course) with just the geometry and oid field and whatever else needed, I can see what I have that you don't have with the basic license.

Re: Nearest points

RonBabcock — Mon, 07 May 2018 20:15:45 GMT

Hi Dan, thanks for the quick response. I've attached a zip file containing two shapefiles. I'm hoping to get the distance and bearing between selected points (or all points) in the measure plots shapefile and the nearest point in the GPS shapefile. Thanks again for your help. Ron

Re: Nearest points

DanPatterson_Retired — Mon, 07 May 2018 20:16:58 GMT

Thanks Ron... something to do this evening

Re: Nearest points

DanPatterson_Retired — Mon, 07 May 2018 23:34:19 GMT

Ron, there is something wrong with the shapefile (the merged on)

Could you make a file geodatabase and copy your source files into it and zip and ship the gdb?

It may be corrupt on transfer since I can't do the copy on my end... It shows up fine, but keeps failing to copy

Nevermind, converted them to points array, then back into geodatabase featureclasses.

Onward.

Re: Nearest points

DanPatterson_Retired — Tue, 08 May 2018 02:53:28 GMT

Look right?

Re: Nearest points

RonBabcock — Tue, 08 May 2018 03:56:09 GMT

Yes, that looks right. Sorry for the delay... just got the kids to bed.

Re: Nearest points

DanPatterson_Retired — Tue, 08 May 2018 10:27:43 GMT

A quick demo for the top left grouping

of course with the stuff in the table but you can get an idea

Re: Nearest points

DanPatterson_Retired — Wed, 09 May 2018 03:32:41 GMT

Dont' know if you are still interested, but before I roll out the final copy, everything check out.

Re: Nearest points

DanPatterson_Retired — Wed, 09 May 2018 13:18:47 GMT

Point Tools for Pro updated 2018-05-09

Closest between layers

returns the origin, destination coordinates, the distance and angle to the closest and connects them with a polyline.

Closest within layer

You get to choose how many up to 5 connections and polylines are produced

Closest within table

A table variant with all the bumph of where and what and how far. You can use this as an event layer to generate all your own points and/or connections.

Re: Nearest points

RonBabcock — Wed, 09 May 2018 14:10:20 GMT

Hi Dan, that all looks very cool. I'm going to give that a shot shortly and get back to you. Thanks!

Re: Nearest points

RonBabcock — Wed, 09 May 2018 17:35:58 GMT

Hi Dan,

Thanks for all your help on this question. I have recently downloaded your updated "Tools for Pro" however, the update seems to be the older version from the beginning of the forum.

Re: Nearest points

DanPatterson_Retired — Wed, 09 May 2018 17:42:12 GMT

To be safe, here attached is the download zip. it should have current dates.

If the one you downloaded today has old dates, let me know... sometimes funky stuff happens and updates aren't as fast as they should be