topic Re: Select polygons by width in Python Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/select-polygons-by-width/m-p/608947#M47520 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>This has always been a tricky one.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>You might start with Minimum Bounding Geometry (Data Management)</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>The tool has a RECTANGLE_BY_WIDTH geometry type parameter</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>that looks promising for relatively simple polygons...</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 28 May 2014 17:46:10 GMT markdenil 2014-05-28T17:46:10Z Select polygons by width https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/select-polygons-by-width/m-p/608946#M47519 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hello,</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>I was wondering if anyone would have any idea on how to solve my problem? </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>I have polygon LandUse layer (stored in geodatabase) and I need automatically select all polygons whose width is less than some threshold (for example roads under 10 m or strips of the grass under 50 m etc). Is there any way to solve this problem by using the arcpy and python scripting, please? I have experience in ArcGIS programming with Python, but I have no idea how to solve this problem.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thank you all very much in advance </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Miroslav Kopecky</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 28 May 2014 09:43:43 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/select-polygons-by-width/m-p/608946#M47519 MiroslavKopecky 2014-05-28T09:43:43Z Re: Select polygons by width https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/select-polygons-by-width/m-p/608947#M47520 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>This has always been a tricky one.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>You might start with Minimum Bounding Geometry (Data Management)</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>The tool has a RECTANGLE_BY_WIDTH geometry type parameter</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>that looks promising for relatively simple polygons...</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 28 May 2014 17:46:10 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/select-polygons-by-width/m-p/608947#M47520 markdenil 2014-05-28T17:46:10Z Re: Select polygons by width https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/select-polygons-by-width/m-p/608948#M47521 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I think a good general workflow would be to make a field to store your minimum widths in.&nbsp; Have a Python script populate those fields so you can select them by attribute.&nbsp; </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>However, I can see this being a bit tricky, especially if your polygons are irregularly shaped.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Perhaps using the </SPAN><A href="http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/main/10.2/index.html#//00170000003q000000">Minimum Bounding Geometry</A><SPAN> tool could be of use here.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Beat to the punch!</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 28 May 2014 18:30:22 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/select-polygons-by-width/m-p/608948#M47521 MattEiben 2014-05-28T18:30:22Z