Euclidean Distance Tool Grouping Features

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04-11-2017 02:36 PM
BradyFehlhafer
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I am trying to perform a spatial analysis of communication towers in the United States for an intro level GIS class, and I have run into trouble with the Euclidean Distance tool grouping my feature points together. Any help would be appreciated.

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DanPatterson_Retired
MVP Emeritus

you should be using projected point data (perhaps an Albers used in the U.S.) and you need to specify the extent to something bounding the input points.  What cell size are you using?

NeilAyres
MVP Alum

I agree with Dan Patterson you should be using a projected coordinate space to do this analysis.

What are you trying to achieve? Judging from the picture, the cell size is much larger than the density of the points.

And the scale of the colour ramped raster looks strange.

Euclidean Distance—Help | ArcGIS Desktop 

Would this

Point Density—Help | ArcGIS Desktop 

not be more suitable?