Buffer using Excel long/lat and Radii Field Option

AlexandreHughes1 — Mon, 03 Jun 2019 18:18:23 GMT

Hello geospatial community,

I have an excel document with long-lat coordinates, which contain radii information, however, I can't seem to get the buffer tool to work properly using the 'field' option. My buffered output is much to small. For instance, the point represented in this image has a radius of 292.933 or 0.05 miles.

The buffer of this layer is as follows:

Visually, I just don't see how that small buffer could represent the entire area of the polygon highlighted in blue. I must be doing something wrong but I just don't know what it is.

I tried following the information found here: How To: Create buffers with different radii for point features using linear units

The excel table in Arcmap is as follows:

The Radius field is in feet, the Rmiles field is in miles. The radius was derived from the following excel formula

[ =SQRT(H2/PI()) ] where H2 is the Shape_Area.

The purpose is to take polygons which do not overlap, generated through network analyst, and normalize them into circles for input into a geospatial modal.

If anyone is able to point out where I am going wrong please let me know. I have been racking my brain on this one.

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