topic Simplify Polygon - How to determine the best Max Allowed Offset? in Geoprocessing Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/simplify-polygon-how-to-determine-the-best-max/m-p/16103#M593 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hello,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I have a few geographies that I am generalizing using the Simplify Polygon method, and I would like to know if you all have any suggestions on how to determine the best Maximum Allowed Offset for a feature class that will be used within a </SPAN><STRONG>particular scale range</STRONG><SPAN>.&nbsp; </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>For example, I have a layer showing the county boundaries of the United States.&nbsp; It will only be used from the scale range of 10,000,000 to 2,000,000.&nbsp; With this, what would be the best Maximum Allowed Offset, or how would one go about finding this?&nbsp; Thanks!</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 23 Jul 2013 14:19:06 GMT JesseHopkins 2013-07-23T14:19:06Z Simplify Polygon - How to determine the best Max Allowed Offset? https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/simplify-polygon-how-to-determine-the-best-max/m-p/16103#M593 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hello,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I have a few geographies that I am generalizing using the Simplify Polygon method, and I would like to know if you all have any suggestions on how to determine the best Maximum Allowed Offset for a feature class that will be used within a </SPAN><STRONG>particular scale range</STRONG><SPAN>.&nbsp; </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>For example, I have a layer showing the county boundaries of the United States.&nbsp; It will only be used from the scale range of 10,000,000 to 2,000,000.&nbsp; With this, what would be the best Maximum Allowed Offset, or how would one go about finding this?&nbsp; Thanks!</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 23 Jul 2013 14:19:06 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/simplify-polygon-how-to-determine-the-best-max/m-p/16103#M593 JesseHopkins 2013-07-23T14:19:06Z Re: Simplify Polygon - How to determine the best Max Allowed Offset? https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/simplify-polygon-how-to-determine-the-best-max/m-p/16104#M594 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>There is no answer.&nbsp; You just need to work with trial and error.&nbsp; You need to determine how much distortion you are happy with from the original polygon.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Perhaps you could have two copies of the polygon up at one time.&nbsp; (from different sources) generalize one of them starting with small numbers.&nbsp; if the amount of distortion is acceptable ctrl-z and try with a larger number.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>A lot of it has to do with how complex your polygon layer is.&nbsp; </SPAN><BR /><BR /><BLOCKQUOTE class="jive-quote">Hello,<BR /><BR />I have a few geographies that I am generalizing using the Simplify Polygon method, and I would like to know if you all have any suggestions on how to determine the best Maximum Allowed Offset for a feature class that will be used within a <STRONG>particular scale range</STRONG>.&nbsp; <BR />For example, I have a layer showing the county boundaries of the United States.&nbsp; It will only be used from the scale range of 10,000,000 to 2,000,000.&nbsp; With this, what would be the best Maximum Allowed Offset, or how would one go about finding this?&nbsp; Thanks!</BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML> Tue, 23 Jul 2013 18:14:25 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/simplify-polygon-how-to-determine-the-best-max/m-p/16104#M594 RobertBorchert 2013-07-23T18:14:25Z Re: Simplify Polygon - How to determine the best Max Allowed Offset? https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/simplify-polygon-how-to-determine-the-best-max/m-p/16105#M595 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Yeah I was thinking that was the case...just hoping it wasn't.&nbsp; Thanks for your quick response!</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 24 Jul 2013 13:45:17 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/simplify-polygon-how-to-determine-the-best-max/m-p/16105#M595 JesseHopkins 2013-07-24T13:45:17Z