topic How to convert GPS collar data to sequential path in Geoprocessing Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/how-to-convert-gps-collar-data-to-sequential-path/m-p/415719#M14046 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Greetings,</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>I have GPS collar data containing 1387 points. </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Each point is time/date stamped.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>The feature class is sorted by date.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>I would like a tool that simply starts at [Object_ID] = 1 and creates a line through [Object_ID] = 1387....essentially a sequential path.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>All the tools I've tried (ArcToolbox: Points to Line), (GME: convert.linestopoints), (ETGeowizards: Point to Polyline) error out.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>They want a field containing a shared value for multiple points, because you can't draw a line with one point.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>It seems like it should be fairly easy for a tool to work sequentially through a sequence of points and output a line with one less record than the total number of input points.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Has anyone perfected a process for handling these type of data in the past.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>I am slightly embarrassed that I am having this much difficulty with a seemingly simple task.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>I'm sure I am missing something obvious.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Any help would be greatly appreciated.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Thanks,</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Morgan</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 10 Jan 2013 21:46:34 GMT MorganGraham 2013-01-10T21:46:34Z How to convert GPS collar data to sequential path https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/how-to-convert-gps-collar-data-to-sequential-path/m-p/415719#M14046 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Greetings,</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>I have GPS collar data containing 1387 points. </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Each point is time/date stamped.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>The feature class is sorted by date.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>I would like a tool that simply starts at [Object_ID] = 1 and creates a line through [Object_ID] = 1387....essentially a sequential path.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>All the tools I've tried (ArcToolbox: Points to Line), (GME: convert.linestopoints), (ETGeowizards: Point to Polyline) error out.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>They want a field containing a shared value for multiple points, because you can't draw a line with one point.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>It seems like it should be fairly easy for a tool to work sequentially through a sequence of points and output a line with one less record than the total number of input points.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Has anyone perfected a process for handling these type of data in the past.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>I am slightly embarrassed that I am having this much difficulty with a seemingly simple task.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>I'm sure I am missing something obvious.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Any help would be greatly appreciated.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Thanks,</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Morgan</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 10 Jan 2013 21:46:34 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/how-to-convert-gps-collar-data-to-sequential-path/m-p/415719#M14046 MorganGraham 2013-01-10T21:46:34Z