topic best-fit ellipse on an object in Mapping Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/mapping-questions/best-fit-ellipse-on-an-object/m-p/251571#M2686 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hello,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I am a french student and I am new on this forum.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>My question is the following:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I know it is possible that ArcGis places an ellipse that best fit with an object but i don't know how to do it?</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>My objects are elongated and oriented lakes and i would like to draw automatically this sort of ellipse&nbsp; around each of the lakes. Then, the orientation of major axis of each ellipse will give me the orientation of the related lake.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>If you think there is another way for getting each lake orientation with ArcGis, please let me know it.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thank you and sorry for my english</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 25 Feb 2013 15:23:11 GMT guillaumeclos 2013-02-25T15:23:11Z best-fit ellipse on an object https://community.esri.com/t5/mapping-questions/best-fit-ellipse-on-an-object/m-p/251571#M2686 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hello,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I am a french student and I am new on this forum.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>My question is the following:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I know it is possible that ArcGis places an ellipse that best fit with an object but i don't know how to do it?</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>My objects are elongated and oriented lakes and i would like to draw automatically this sort of ellipse&nbsp; around each of the lakes. Then, the orientation of major axis of each ellipse will give me the orientation of the related lake.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>If you think there is another way for getting each lake orientation with ArcGis, please let me know it.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thank you and sorry for my english</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 25 Feb 2013 15:23:11 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/mapping-questions/best-fit-ellipse-on-an-object/m-p/251571#M2686 guillaumeclos 2013-02-25T15:23:11Z