Creating a line between points...

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01-31-2013 01:42 AM
CliveCartwright
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I'm trying to create a polyline of streams/river as derived from a DEM raster at 50m x 50m cell resolution.

I've managed to get as far as creating a point layer showing a point for each cell, but can't jump from point to polyline.

I've tried the Points to Line tool, (http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisdesktop/10.0/help/index.html#//00170000003s000000)
but it strings together the points in ID order and doesn't allow for you to set a 50m radius catchment for the nearest cell point, that would no doubt allow me to recreate the river as a polyline using (if you like) Toblers first law. 🙂

Maybe it can only be done using code, but I'm very poor on this side of things. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Any advice would be much appreciated.
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TarunJaiswal
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Greetings!

You may want to take a look at the Hydrology tools of Spatial Analyst extension.

Thanks!
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