topic Re: Problem with Near tool - Chapter 6 in New to GIS Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/new-to-gis-questions/problem-with-near-tool-chapter-6/m-p/477603#M1313 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Heh. I guess I should've just gone to the book's web site because I would've seen this almost right away: </SPAN><A class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://resources.arcgis.com/en/communities/understanding-gis/01w300000006000000.htm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://resources.arcgis.com/en/communities/understanding-gis/01w300000006000000.htm</A><SPAN>. Oops.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>tl;dr version: when running the Near tool, use FiveSites as the input feature, LARiver as the Near Features and enter a value of 2 and set the units to Miles, then click on OK.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Sun, 10 Feb 2013 19:50:28 GMT JerryPemberton 2013-02-10T19:50:28Z Problem with Near tool - Chapter 6 https://community.esri.com/t5/new-to-gis-questions/problem-with-near-tool-chapter-6/m-p/477601#M1311 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I ran the Near tool as specified on pages 219/220, but I keep getting a -1 in all of the rows for the Near_FID and Near_Dist columns in the FiveSites attribute table. Any thoughts on what I did incorrectly?</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Sat, 09 Feb 2013 19:41:26 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/new-to-gis-questions/problem-with-near-tool-chapter-6/m-p/477601#M1311 JerryPemberton 2013-02-09T19:41:26Z Re: Problem with Near tool - Chapter 6 https://community.esri.com/t5/new-to-gis-questions/problem-with-near-tool-chapter-6/m-p/477602#M1312 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I retraced my steps by going back to page 216 and I got the same result. This is pretty much a blocker for the rest of this chapter.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Sat, 09 Feb 2013 23:28:11 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/new-to-gis-questions/problem-with-near-tool-chapter-6/m-p/477602#M1312 JerryPemberton 2013-02-09T23:28:11Z Re: Problem with Near tool - Chapter 6 https://community.esri.com/t5/new-to-gis-questions/problem-with-near-tool-chapter-6/m-p/477603#M1313 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Heh. I guess I should've just gone to the book's web site because I would've seen this almost right away: </SPAN><A class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://resources.arcgis.com/en/communities/understanding-gis/01w300000006000000.htm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://resources.arcgis.com/en/communities/understanding-gis/01w300000006000000.htm</A><SPAN>. Oops.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>tl;dr version: when running the Near tool, use FiveSites as the input feature, LARiver as the Near Features and enter a value of 2 and set the units to Miles, then click on OK.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Sun, 10 Feb 2013 19:50:28 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/new-to-gis-questions/problem-with-near-tool-chapter-6/m-p/477603#M1313 JerryPemberton 2013-02-10T19:50:28Z