topic Re: Walking Distance from and to a point in Mapping Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/mapping-questions/walking-distance-from-and-to-a-point/m-p/524069#M5668 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Network analyst isn't good at doing prescribed distances.&nbsp; It is optimized to find shortest routes etc.&nbsp; You could however delineate a service area of half your desired distance, then find the intersection with the network itself.&nbsp; This would at least give you route(s) that would denote places you could run to, then back giving your cumulative distance (aka ... a pretty boring run).&nbsp; Perhaps you could give a rethink as to the criteria that would be useful to delineate routes that simply aren't retraced.</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 24 Apr 2015 19:14:45 GMT DanPatterson_Retired 2015-04-24T19:14:45Z Walking Distance from and to a point https://community.esri.com/t5/mapping-questions/walking-distance-from-and-to-a-point/m-p/524068#M5667 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Looking for ideas on how to go about creating a map (and/or app) where I could put in specific point locations (or could possibly use the locate me function on a device as the starting point), then find all potential routes for a given distance round trip.&nbsp; For example, we want to start a fitness program, so I would like to have our buildings as input, and say a 1 mile round trip goal and show all of the different walking routes that are 1 mile.&nbsp; It sounds like something Network Analyst should be able to do but I can't wrap my head around how to make it work the way I describe.&nbsp; The plus of using Network Analyst for this would be the ability to use barriers to block unsafe routes that were identified.&nbsp; Suggestions are appreciated!</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 24 Apr 2015 18:59:12 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/mapping-questions/walking-distance-from-and-to-a-point/m-p/524068#M5667 MelissaJohnson 2015-04-24T18:59:12Z Re: Walking Distance from and to a point https://community.esri.com/t5/mapping-questions/walking-distance-from-and-to-a-point/m-p/524069#M5668 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Network analyst isn't good at doing prescribed distances.&nbsp; It is optimized to find shortest routes etc.&nbsp; You could however delineate a service area of half your desired distance, then find the intersection with the network itself.&nbsp; This would at least give you route(s) that would denote places you could run to, then back giving your cumulative distance (aka ... a pretty boring run).&nbsp; Perhaps you could give a rethink as to the criteria that would be useful to delineate routes that simply aren't retraced.</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 24 Apr 2015 19:14:45 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/mapping-questions/walking-distance-from-and-to-a-point/m-p/524069#M5668 DanPatterson_Retired 2015-04-24T19:14:45Z