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Plotting a Polyline from data with a real word width

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01-03-2023 02:02 PM
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BradTrott
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New to the concepts of ArcGIS.
Something that should be easy, I wonder how hard it might be.

I have waypoint data to create a polyline for a route. With that data would be a width of a visual observation or even a radar observation along the route measured in Metric. (m or KMs)

Can arcGis simply create a polygon of sorts around the Polyline of points to a real world scale of the observation size? 

My alternative thought is that I may have to calculate the Lat/Lon position of the observation extents of each waypoint leg, essentially creating a polygon rectangle and then do some sort of smooth polygon fill of the complete route.


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GoWest
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Check out the Buffer Tool:
https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/latest/tool-reference/analysis/buffer.htm

This video might give you some ideas how the buffer tool can help you:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtOnte1W0Tc

When is a line not a line? When it turns into a polygon! This question is all about scale. At a national level, roads are always line features, but if you are mapping at the scale of an individual school for example, roads can be mapped as polygons. However lines are easier to digitise! So here we
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