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Point Distance Wizard

Calculates the distance for each point of a point layer to the closest feature from another layer (Point, Polyline or Polygon)

Inputs:

• Point feature layer
• Distance layer  - Point, Polyline or Polygon layer
• Search tolerance - the maximum distance to search for features in the distance layer

Outputs:

• New  Point feature class. The attribute table of the resulting feature class will have three new fields
  • [ET_ID] - the ID of the point
  • [ET_Dist] - the distance from the point to the closest feature from the distance layer
  • [ET_Closest] - the ID of the closest feature from the distance layer

Notes:

• If the distance from a point to the closest feature from the distance layer is larger than the Search Tolerance then the [ET_Dist] and [ET_Closest] will have a value of -1
• If the distance layer is of polygon type all the points that are within a polygon will have a distance of 0. If the distance to the polygons boundaries has to be calculated, convert first the polygon layer to a polyline one using Polygon To Polyline Wizard.
• The bigger the search tolerance is the slower the process will be
• If the Point layer and the Distance layer have different Spatial Reference the distance is calculated in the Spatial Reference of the data frame (the View)