topic wiggling lines: creating fake GPS tracks in Mapping Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/mapping-questions/wiggling-lines-creating-fake-gps-tracks/m-p/17266#M218 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi,</P><P></P><P>I have routes that are driving routes between address, that have been looked up using Google. They are in a shapefile.</P><P></P><P>Now I am curious if there is a ready tool/script to introduce a little wiggle to these, to make them look more like GPS tracks. It is not too complicated to do this using ArcPy, and I might just go ahead and do it.</P><P></P><P>What I would like to do is to insert nodes every x meters (10? 50?) and then move that node randomly within a specified radius (3 meters? 5 meters?).</P><P></P><P>I am not sure it will look better in the heatmap that I am producing, but I am curious to see the result and compare vs straight lines/routes.</P><P></P><P>Any tips?</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 24 Oct 2014 11:16:56 GMT HugoAhlenius 2014-10-24T11:16:56Z wiggling lines: creating fake GPS tracks https://community.esri.com/t5/mapping-questions/wiggling-lines-creating-fake-gps-tracks/m-p/17266#M218 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi,</P><P></P><P>I have routes that are driving routes between address, that have been looked up using Google. They are in a shapefile.</P><P></P><P>Now I am curious if there is a ready tool/script to introduce a little wiggle to these, to make them look more like GPS tracks. It is not too complicated to do this using ArcPy, and I might just go ahead and do it.</P><P></P><P>What I would like to do is to insert nodes every x meters (10? 50?) and then move that node randomly within a specified radius (3 meters? 5 meters?).</P><P></P><P>I am not sure it will look better in the heatmap that I am producing, but I am curious to see the result and compare vs straight lines/routes.</P><P></P><P>Any tips?</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 24 Oct 2014 11:16:56 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/mapping-questions/wiggling-lines-creating-fake-gps-tracks/m-p/17266#M218 HugoAhlenius 2014-10-24T11:16:56Z