https://community.esri.com/t5/arcmap-questions/how-to-build-an-optimized-line-network-for/m-p/1080518#M2795 <P>I've been trying to use the Network Analyst tool in Arcmap 10.7 however I'm having a hard time figuring out an automatic approach to the nearest points (best order for collecting points)</P><P>I have my road network, I have my 120 points. I had no trouble loading these points in as "Stops" and then hitting "Solve" to create a path that went through all 120 points, however my issue is trying to have the 120 points sorted in a way that makes sense as to the order of collection spatially. Right now the path is just based on the way the points are loaded in and results in a total of ~1900 miles and I know I can get this number down to about a route that is 1200 miles manually but is there an automatic approach to find an optimized route path?</P><P>I considered perhaps nearest neighbor, or something similar but would love some input from someone more experienced in this issue.</P> Mon, 19 Jul 2021 20:58:16 GMT AmandipDhillon 2021-07-19T20:58:16Z https://community.esri.com/t5/arcmap-questions/how-to-build-an-optimized-line-network-for/m-p/1080518#M2795 <P>I've been trying to use the Network Analyst tool in Arcmap 10.7 however I'm having a hard time figuring out an automatic approach to the nearest points (best order for collecting points)</P><P>I have my road network, I have my 120 points. I had no trouble loading these points in as "Stops" and then hitting "Solve" to create a path that went through all 120 points, however my issue is trying to have the 120 points sorted in a way that makes sense as to the order of collection spatially. Right now the path is just based on the way the points are loaded in and results in a total of ~1900 miles and I know I can get this number down to about a route that is 1200 miles manually but is there an automatic approach to find an optimized route path?</P><P>I considered perhaps nearest neighbor, or something similar but would love some input from someone more experienced in this issue.</P> Mon, 19 Jul 2021 20:58:16 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcmap-questions/how-to-build-an-optimized-line-network-for/m-p/1080518#M2795 AmandipDhillon 2021-07-19T20:58:16Z