shrug-l: Closest Point Tool

[Griffin, Jason]

I think you might be able to get away with the Near tool, and/or some creative iterating.

I found a python script a few years ago that creates spider lines from one point to many other points which might work for you also, but if I remember it correctly you might have to run it for each source point.  If that is the case you could update it w/ ArcMap 10's model iterators to do that for you.  After you run it for all of your source points you could then merge all of the data together in a table and then use the Pivot Table to cross-tabulate the data which would give you one line for each point, and one row for each point.  I'd attempt this in a file geodatabase so you can have long field names if you need it, and so the outputs will automatically have the shape length field but I think the tool adds a distance.

It is Arc Script Id 14908 if my attachment gets stripped.

I'll check my old models to see if I have anything else...

Good luck!

Jason Griffin
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From: shrug-l-bounces at lists.dep.state.fl.us [mailto:shrug-l-bounces at lists.dep.state.fl.us] On Behalf Of Bret Whiteley
Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2011 2:35 PM
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Subject: shrug-l: Closest Point Tool

Shruggers,

I have a point shapefile with 44 features in it.  I would like to know the distance from each feature to each other.  It would be best if the results are returned in a matrix.

I have ArcEditor 10, with Spatial Analysis.  It appears that i might have to write a script to fix this with, but i cant imagine there is not an out-the-box tool,

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Bret.
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