topic Point Clusters in Geoprocessing Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/point-clusters/m-p/437545#M14697 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I would like to show clusters of points, and then export this information into a feature class or layer. I have tried the buffer tool, which gave me the information that I wanted. However, I do not know how to only export the buffers that have the point clusters. In other words, I am tracking areas in a city where there are clusters of a feature. I want to show where these clusters are in order to streamline our workflow. Any tips?</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 19 May 2014 12:47:27 GMT LH1 2014-05-19T12:47:27Z Point Clusters https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/point-clusters/m-p/437545#M14697 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I would like to show clusters of points, and then export this information into a feature class or layer. I have tried the buffer tool, which gave me the information that I wanted. However, I do not know how to only export the buffers that have the point clusters. In other words, I am tracking areas in a city where there are clusters of a feature. I want to show where these clusters are in order to streamline our workflow. Any tips?</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 19 May 2014 12:47:27 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/point-clusters/m-p/437545#M14697 LH1 2014-05-19T12:47:27Z Re: Point Clusters https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/point-clusters/m-p/437546#M14698 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Just buffer only the clusters</SPAN><BR /><BR /><BLOCKQUOTE class="jive-quote">I would like to show clusters of points, and then export this information into a feature class or layer. I have tried the buffer tool, which gave me the information that I wanted. However, I do not know how to only export the buffers that have the point clusters. In other words, I am tracking areas in a city where there are clusters of a feature. I want to show where these clusters are in order to streamline our workflow. Any tips?</BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML> Mon, 19 May 2014 13:19:52 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/point-clusters/m-p/437546#M14698 RobertBorchert 2014-05-19T13:19:52Z Re: Point Clusters https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/point-clusters/m-p/437547#M14699 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>No, I want to use the buffer to illustrate where these clusters are. If I am misunderstanding you, please let me know.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 19 May 2014 14:20:26 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/point-clusters/m-p/437547#M14699 LH1 2014-05-19T14:20:26Z Re: Point Clusters https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/point-clusters/m-p/437548#M14700 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>The description you have provided is a bit vague and I am not certain what you really want to do.&nbsp; However, several tools may apply to this problem in addition to the buffer tool.&nbsp; The Dissolve tool with the multipart option unchecked or the Multipart to Singlepart tool may be useful for creating merged buffers only where they touch each other and the Spatial Join tool may be useful for getting point summary counts related to each buffer that would let you select them based on some count criteria.&nbsp; The Select by Location tool may also apply.&nbsp; Any selection of features can be exported as a set to separate them from other features you did not select.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 19 May 2014 14:48:21 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/point-clusters/m-p/437548#M14700 RichardFairhurst 2014-05-19T14:48:21Z Re: Point Clusters https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/point-clusters/m-p/437549#M14701 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Sorry for the confusion. Basically, I have a set of points. I want to set up a relationship class which will link the clustered points together for modeling purposes. By finding where the clusters are, it will improve my workflow. Does this help?</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 19 May 2014 16:20:16 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/point-clusters/m-p/437549#M14701 LH1 2014-05-19T16:20:16Z Re: Point Clusters https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/point-clusters/m-p/437550#M14702 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><BLOCKQUOTE class="jive-quote">Sorry for the confusion. Basically, I have a set of points. I want to set up a relationship class which will link the clustered points together for modeling purposes. By finding where the clusters are, it will improve my workflow. Does this help?</BLOCKQUOTE><BR /><SPAN> </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>The tools I mentioned all apply to this problem, with buffer, dissolve and/or Multipart to Single part getting your merged touching buffers.&nbsp; Spatial Join is your friend to create the relationship between the points and the buffers.&nbsp; It sounds like you need to make the points the target and the buffers the join input.&nbsp; I would use the One to Many option to get the ObjectID relationship created.&nbsp; The JoinOID of the spatially joined point output will relate to the buffer polygon ObjectID values.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Experiment with these tools.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 19 May 2014 16:25:39 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/point-clusters/m-p/437550#M14702 RichardFairhurst 2014-05-19T16:25:39Z Re: Point Clusters https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/point-clusters/m-p/437551#M14703 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Thanks! I will look into this now.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 19 May 2014 16:39:27 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/point-clusters/m-p/437551#M14703 LH1 2014-05-19T16:39:27Z