How to show a 500 feet circle around a point layer

[SanchezNuñez]

Good afternoon,

I need to show a 500 feet circle around a point layer and how it in a web map.

Circles have to be permanent.

How do you recommend to do that?

Thanks

[clt_cabq]

In ArcGIS Online Map Viewer select Analysis, then Use Proximity and the Create Buffers tool as shown in the screen shot - follow the on screen dialogue to specify the information it will need. You'll have to have a creator account, and be able to share the result to a group (or public or organization) for others to see it in your web map.

[JoseSanchez]

Good morning,

Let me try this option.   

In my case I added the hosted feature layer to ArcGIS Pro, created a 500 feet buffer, and published it in AGOL. This process has to be repeated because the source layer (points) gets updated.

Question. Using the Proximity and the Create Buffers tool, does it create buffers for new points and removes buffers for deleted points?

Thanks

[clt_cabq]

The short answer is no. If you are doing the processing on Arc Pro side, then you would need to overwrite your hosted feature layers (points and buffer polygons) each time you update the points. If you are creating buffers as I described using the tools in Map Viewer it is the same issue - you'll have to overwrite your butter and points layers as these are static. I imagine you can work out a model or python script to automate some of this and make it seem seamless. If you have access to Pro however, I would recommend you do your geoprocessing there then overwrite your hosted layers simply because doing the analysis in Map Viewer will cost your organization service credits. You'll still incur service credit usage for storage but if you do as much as you can in Pro you will save the geoprocessing costs in AGOL - for instance, just looking at a layer i have in AGOL with 38K points, creating 500ft buffers of those would cost approx 39 service credits. Its somewhat nominal but those charges add up if you are relying on AGOL for geoprocessing.