topic Re: Euclidean Distance Tool Error in Geoprocessing Questions

Euclidean Distance Tool Error

AndrewRoberts2 — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 11:17:56 GMT

Hey,

For my work I've been using the tool Euclidean distance under Spatial Analyst tools. I used it yesterday and it worked fine but now when I try to run in I get a generic Error: 999999. Usually the error message will help me get around my issue but this one doesn't tell me much. I really have no idea what I'm doing wrong.

I'm trying to create a raster showing distance from rivers and using the land as my processing extent and I'm making sure I delete the output from the attempts so I'm not trying to overwrite anything.

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Re: Euclidean Distance Tool Error

DanPatterson_Retired — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 11:44:06 GMT

change your output path so that it doesn't contain spaces or other unsavory characters and see if that helps. Also output filename should be 13 characters or less

Re: Euclidean Distance Tool Error

SolomonPulapkura — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 00:39:52 GMT

Try adjusting the output cell size. Also try not providing the output cell size.

Re: Euclidean Distance Tool Error

JamesBornemann — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 14:05:05 GMT

Hi Andrew,
I noticed a couple times in the results messages the error: "Failed to open raster dataset". This makes me wonder if there is a problem with your rivers input file. If it is a raster, make sure it is integer type.

If this doesn't work, and you correct the file and path names as Dan Patterson suggests... my guess is that it is probably a problem with the coordinate system. Judging from the default cell size I assume you are using a lat/long coord-system, so try projecting toUTM or another Cartesian type and try again.

Hope this helps,
James

Re: Euclidean Distance Tool Error

AndrewRoberts2 — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 17:18:15 GMT

Thanks for the help guys.
Not sure what the problem was but when saving the output eucidean distance rasters in a geodatabase rather than a regular folder my model works.

My only issue now is that i'm not sure which type of measurement is being used in the output. I need to have it in meters and right now it is in some sort of interval where 1 equals a distance well over 100km. I was hoping that by setting my data frame properties to meters that it was create the out raster values in terms of meters but it doesn't seem to work.

-Andrew