ArcGIS Pro 2.5: How can the “generate near table” tool calculate the distance from each source point layer to each destination point layer?

[JamalNUMAN]

ArcGIS Pro 2.5: How can the “generate near table” tool calculate the distance from each source point layer to each destination point layer?

As the “point distance” is deprecated in Pro, I couldn’t figure out how the “generate near table” tool can calculate the distance from each source point layer to each destination point layer

For example, in the screenshot below, I wanted to calculate the distance from the zonecenter layer (which has 8 points) and the pharmacies (which has 55 points). I’m expecting to have a table of 440 rows (8x55). This is used to be performed easily in ArcMap with the “point distance” tool.

How can the “generate near table” tool generates a table of 440 rows from a source point layer of 8 point layer and destination layer of 55 points?

This issue has been already discussed here:

ArcGIS Pro 2.5: “Point distance” tool appears not to be available without offering an equivalent too...

[DanPatterson_Retired · Accepted solution]

uncheck "find closest feature" 

You can find the closest later, since the closest may only be in one layer and not in the other.

• If no Search Radius is specified and Find only closest features is unchecked (closest set to ALL in Python), and Maximum number of closest is left to default (0 or empty), the output table will contain distance calculations between all input features and all near features. This kind of process can take quite a long time and can create a large output table. For example, if you have 1,000 input features and 1,000 near features, the output table will contain 1,000,000 records.

[JamalNUMAN]

Many thanks Dan for the help. This precisely answers my questions