topic Re: Move centre points to polygon edge in Geoprocessing Questions

Move centre points to polygon edge

SukhRehal — Wed, 19 Nov 2014 20:47:45 GMT

Hi guys,

I'm hoping someone can advise me here.

I have address data in the form of points and I have home boundaries (Polygon & Polyline).

The points sit in the centre of these polygons.

Is there any way I can move the points from the centre of the polygons to the edge closest to another feature?

I have 1000s of points to move so I was wondering if there was a way I can automate this?

Thanks in advance for any help & guidance.

I am using ArcGIS 10.2 Standard.

Re: Move centre points to polygon edge

DanPatterson_Retired — Thu, 27 Nov 2014 01:40:21 GMT

none... unless you can convert the boundary to polyline or points and try a spatial join

Re: Move centre points to polygon edge

XanderBakker — Fri, 28 Nov 2014 04:16:58 GMT

With standard tools I agree with Dan Patterson‌. You could achieve this with some Python or ArcObjects programming. It would for instance involve a Near function to determine for each point which point is nearest. If you would connect each point with its nearest neighbor, you could intersect that line with the boundary of the polygon. The intersection would be the point you are looking for.