topic Ways to make a heat map in Geoprocessing Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/ways-to-make-a-heat-map/m-p/80627#M2818 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I am trying to make a heat map to illustrate a certain conclusion.</P><P>Suppose I have a few points, each with a different value in one of their attributes.</P><P>How can I create a heat map indicating the value of that numeric attribute?</P><P style="min-height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&nbsp;</P><P>For example if there are a few water wells scattered across a county, each with a different capacity.</P><P>How would you illustrate that the wells in the southern portion of the county generally carry more water?</P><P style="min-height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&nbsp;</P><P>I've seen heat maps be done with Kernel Density, but that is best suited to show a high concentration of points.</P><P>How can you create a heat map not based on the concentration/quantity of points in an area but by the magnitude of an attribute of a few features?</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Feb 2015 22:16:52 GMT MarleneSanchez 2015-02-05T22:16:52Z Ways to make a heat map https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/ways-to-make-a-heat-map/m-p/80627#M2818 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I am trying to make a heat map to illustrate a certain conclusion.</P><P>Suppose I have a few points, each with a different value in one of their attributes.</P><P>How can I create a heat map indicating the value of that numeric attribute?</P><P style="min-height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&nbsp;</P><P>For example if there are a few water wells scattered across a county, each with a different capacity.</P><P>How would you illustrate that the wells in the southern portion of the county generally carry more water?</P><P style="min-height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&nbsp;</P><P>I've seen heat maps be done with Kernel Density, but that is best suited to show a high concentration of points.</P><P>How can you create a heat map not based on the concentration/quantity of points in an area but by the magnitude of an attribute of a few features?</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Feb 2015 22:16:52 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/ways-to-make-a-heat-map/m-p/80627#M2818 MarleneSanchez 2015-02-05T22:16:52Z Re: Ways to make a heat map https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/ways-to-make-a-heat-map/m-p/80628#M2819 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Are you wanting to symbolize the points based on the magnitude of the attribute? If so read up on it here: <A href="http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisdesktop/10.0/help/index.html#/Using_proportional_symbols/00s500000005000000/" title="http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisdesktop/10.0/help/index.html#/Using_proportional_symbols/00s500000005000000/">Using proportional symbols</A></P></BODY></HTML> Sat, 18 Apr 2015 05:37:49 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/ways-to-make-a-heat-map/m-p/80628#M2819 SepheFox 2015-04-18T05:37:49Z