topic randomly select polygons and stepwise omit overlapping polygons in Geoprocessing Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/randomly-select-polygons-and-stepwise-omit/m-p/593388#M19646 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>hi there,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I have ~300 buffer polygons (see attached) and want to randomly select ~50 of them. when one polygon is selected, I want to omit all other polygons that overlap that selected polygon from the next step of selection. </SPAN><BR /><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I want to do this stepwise for all 50 polygons I select. in the end, none of my 50 selected polygons will overlap.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>any ideas?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>thanks!</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>emil</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 22 Apr 2014 08:19:57 GMT EmilLarsson 2014-04-22T08:19:57Z randomly select polygons and stepwise omit overlapping polygons https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/randomly-select-polygons-and-stepwise-omit/m-p/593388#M19646 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>hi there,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I have ~300 buffer polygons (see attached) and want to randomly select ~50 of them. when one polygon is selected, I want to omit all other polygons that overlap that selected polygon from the next step of selection. </SPAN><BR /><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I want to do this stepwise for all 50 polygons I select. in the end, none of my 50 selected polygons will overlap.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>any ideas?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>thanks!</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>emil</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 22 Apr 2014 08:19:57 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/randomly-select-polygons-and-stepwise-omit/m-p/593388#M19646 EmilLarsson 2014-04-22T08:19:57Z Re: randomly select polygons and stepwise omit overlapping polygons https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/randomly-select-polygons-and-stepwise-omit/m-p/593389#M19647 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I would post in the python forum. You might be able to get some ideas from this post:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><A href="http://forums.arcgis.com/threads/107404-Basic-python-in-ArcGIS-need-help">http://forums.arcgis.com/threads/107404-Basic-python-in-ArcGIS-need-help</A><SPAN>!</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 23 Apr 2014 20:22:18 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/randomly-select-polygons-and-stepwise-omit/m-p/593389#M19647 AmyKlug 2014-04-23T20:22:18Z Re: randomly select polygons and stepwise omit overlapping polygons https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/randomly-select-polygons-and-stepwise-omit/m-p/593390#M19648 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>hi, </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I did post this question in the python forum, and got a great answer to the problem. </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>follow this link </SPAN><A href="http://forums.arcgis.com/threads/107712-randomly-select-polygons-and-stepwise-omit-overlapping-polygons?p=384396&amp;posted=1#post384396">http://forums.arcgis.com/threads/107712-randomly-select-polygons-and-stepwise-omit-overlapping-polygons?p=384396&amp;posted=1#post384396</A><BR /><BR /><SPAN>emil</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 28 Apr 2014 13:17:29 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/randomly-select-polygons-and-stepwise-omit/m-p/593390#M19648 EmilLarsson 2014-04-28T13:17:29Z