topic WARNING 000635: Skipping feature because of NULL or EMPTY geometry. in Spatial Data Science Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/spatial-data-science-questions/warning-000635-skipping-feature-because-of-null-or/m-p/266760#M622 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I got warning message "WARNING 000635: Skipping feature because of NULL or EMPTY geometry" while doing Buffer_analysis {arcpy.Buffer_analysis("StreetLights",r"C:\MyExercises\Scratch\Temporary Storage.gdb\bf5","BuffDis")}. The input was point feature "StreetLights", The buffer distance was "BuffDis" (which is field of StreetLights).</P><P></P><P>Does anyone know why warning message happened?</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 09 Jun 2016 16:28:55 GMT CarolLiu 2016-06-09T16:28:55Z WARNING 000635: Skipping feature because of NULL or EMPTY geometry. https://community.esri.com/t5/spatial-data-science-questions/warning-000635-skipping-feature-because-of-null-or/m-p/266760#M622 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I got warning message "WARNING 000635: Skipping feature because of NULL or EMPTY geometry" while doing Buffer_analysis {arcpy.Buffer_analysis("StreetLights",r"C:\MyExercises\Scratch\Temporary Storage.gdb\bf5","BuffDis")}. The input was point feature "StreetLights", The buffer distance was "BuffDis" (which is field of StreetLights).</P><P></P><P>Does anyone know why warning message happened?</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 09 Jun 2016 16:28:55 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/spatial-data-science-questions/warning-000635-skipping-feature-because-of-null-or/m-p/266760#M622 CarolLiu 2016-06-09T16:28:55Z Re: WARNING 000635: Skipping feature because of NULL or EMPTY geometry. https://community.esri.com/t5/spatial-data-science-questions/warning-000635-skipping-feature-because-of-null-or/m-p/266761#M623 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>a record did not have a value in the buffer field or it is in error (ie null or 0 ) Always query for appropriate records first before using tools such as this.&nbsp; A simple test is to query all records whose buffer distance is &gt; 0.0.&nbsp; Then when you run the buffer tool, only those records will be involved in the process, excluding erroneous records.</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 09 Jun 2016 18:08:31 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/spatial-data-science-questions/warning-000635-skipping-feature-because-of-null-or/m-p/266761#M623 DanPatterson_Retired 2016-06-09T18:08:31Z Re: WARNING 000635: Skipping feature because of NULL or EMPTY geometry. https://community.esri.com/t5/spatial-data-science-questions/warning-000635-skipping-feature-because-of-null-or/m-p/266762#M624 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I don't quite understand what you point out...You mean table record? None of the value of in the field "BuffDis" is null or 0 (see the screenshot).</P><P></P><P><IMG alt="buff_warning.jpg" class="image-1 jive-image" src="https://community.esri.com/legacyfs/online/207309_buff_warning.jpg" style="width: 620px; height: 192px;" /></P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 09 Jun 2016 21:00:53 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/spatial-data-science-questions/warning-000635-skipping-feature-because-of-null-or/m-p/266762#M624 CarolLiu 2016-06-09T21:00:53Z Re: WARNING 000635: Skipping feature because of NULL or EMPTY geometry. https://community.esri.com/t5/spatial-data-science-questions/warning-000635-skipping-feature-because-of-null-or/m-p/266763#M625 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Geometry then.&nbsp; How many points do you have?&nbsp; the OBJECTID are missing some or is that a sorted selection.&nbsp; Try Repair Geometry, or since you have a point file, it wouldn't hurt to add the XY coordinates to the table</P><P></P><P><A href="http://desktop.arcgis.com/en/arcmap/latest/tools/data-management-toolbox/add-geometry-attributes.htm" title="http://desktop.arcgis.com/en/arcmap/latest/tools/data-management-toolbox/add-geometry-attributes.htm">Add Geometry Attributes—Help | ArcGIS for Desktop</A></P><P>If you get 0,0 for any of the points, they are null geometry and need to be removed or fixed </P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 09 Jun 2016 21:16:51 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/spatial-data-science-questions/warning-000635-skipping-feature-because-of-null-or/m-p/266763#M625 DanPatterson_Retired 2016-06-09T21:16:51Z Re: WARNING 000635: Skipping feature because of NULL or EMPTY geometry. https://community.esri.com/t5/spatial-data-science-questions/warning-000635-skipping-feature-because-of-null-or/m-p/266764#M626 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>You are right. That was geometry issue. I added XY, it turned out 151 out of 1470 were NULL. Thanks, Dan!</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 09 Jun 2016 21:40:58 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/spatial-data-science-questions/warning-000635-skipping-feature-because-of-null-or/m-p/266764#M626 CarolLiu 2016-06-09T21:40:58Z