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ArcGIS Pro 3.x Cookbook

ArcGIS Pro 3.x Cookbook

By : Tripp Corbin, GISP
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ArcGIS Pro 3.x Cookbook

ArcGIS Pro 3.x Cookbook

4.8 (16)
By: Tripp Corbin, GISP

Overview of this book

ArcGIS Pro, Esri's newest desktop GIS application, offers powerful tools for visualizing, maintaining, and analyzing data. This cookbook will help existing ArcMap users transition to ArcGIS Pro and teach new users how to utilize its GIS tools effectively. You’ll learn how to create geodatabases, convert data formats, link tables from outside sources, edit 2D and 3D data, ensure data integrity with topology, and enable advanced geodatabase behavior. By the end, you'll be able to effectively use ArcGIS Pro as your primary desktop GIS application, maintaining, analyzing, and displaying data using common methods and tools.
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Finding the mean center of a geographic distribution

When we are looking for clusters of data or trying to determine the overall geographic distribution of our data, one of the first things many of these tools do is determine a center of mass for the data. From there, it can compare nearby features by looking for clusters, determining area concentrations of data, looking at the directional distribution, and more.

However, finding the center of the geographic distribution of our data can be a powerful analytical tool. This can allow us to strategically locate new facilities, pick a central meeting place, plan a reaction to events, and more. There are three types of centers we can calculate: mean, feature, and median.

The mean center is the easiest to calculate. It is simply the average of all the X and Y coordinates for all the features in the layer you are analyzing. The result is the mean center. This can be useful in tracking movement or shifts over time, such as population...

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