topic Help: Calculate the shortest straight line flying route to fly a list of coordinates in Spatial Statistics Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/spatial-statistics-questions/help-calculate-the-shortest-straight-line-flying/m-p/43979#M146 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi all</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>I'm new to this, and I have a problem I need to solve, and would love to get some help.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I have a spread sheet listing a big number of locations (coordinates). I have plotted all points on to a mat in ArcMap.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>My problem is how to get the software to calculate the shortest straight line flying "route" to fly all to all this locations. It???s like a Traveling Salesman Problem, our the route function built in to ArcGis, but in this case there is no roads. It need to be straight lines ???as a bird fly???, passing all locations in the best possible order so total distance is the shortest. I would like it to calculate the best order to pass the points, calculate and present the distance between each leg, and total distance as well.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I would like it to work like "points to line", but sort the points in the best order so the total distance is the smallest possible.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>The issue that geodesic distance is not the linear distance will not be a problem for me. All this is very short distances so that difference will not be a problem.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>All route solutions I have found so fare is for finding the best route in a road systems, that don't help me.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>I would really appreciate some help. And again, I???m new to this so please keep it simple.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thanks!</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 28 Jan 2013 12:51:38 GMT NilsN 2013-01-28T12:51:38Z Help: Calculate the shortest straight line flying route to fly a list of coordinates https://community.esri.com/t5/spatial-statistics-questions/help-calculate-the-shortest-straight-line-flying/m-p/43979#M146 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi all</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>I'm new to this, and I have a problem I need to solve, and would love to get some help.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I have a spread sheet listing a big number of locations (coordinates). I have plotted all points on to a mat in ArcMap.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>My problem is how to get the software to calculate the shortest straight line flying "route" to fly all to all this locations. It???s like a Traveling Salesman Problem, our the route function built in to ArcGis, but in this case there is no roads. It need to be straight lines ???as a bird fly???, passing all locations in the best possible order so total distance is the shortest. I would like it to calculate the best order to pass the points, calculate and present the distance between each leg, and total distance as well.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I would like it to work like "points to line", but sort the points in the best order so the total distance is the smallest possible.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>The issue that geodesic distance is not the linear distance will not be a problem for me. All this is very short distances so that difference will not be a problem.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>All route solutions I have found so fare is for finding the best route in a road systems, that don't help me.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>I would really appreciate some help. And again, I???m new to this so please keep it simple.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thanks!</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 28 Jan 2013 12:51:38 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/spatial-statistics-questions/help-calculate-the-shortest-straight-line-flying/m-p/43979#M146 NilsN 2013-01-28T12:51:38Z