I have a huge number of polygons that contain attribute field that represent number of offices inside each polygon. Now I want to merge all adjacent polygons which count (sum) of offices values is between 1000 and 2000. I want to do that using ArcGIS. I have idea to use Dissolve tool, Integrate tool and Merge tool, but I am not sure about steps in order to solve this.
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1Possible duplicate of Graph/Network building and analysis of linked polygons in ArcGIS for Desktop?– FelixIPCommented Dec 10, 2017 at 17:42
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@FelixIP very similar, but not same.– user104851Commented Dec 10, 2017 at 22:53
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100 percent identical. If you dissolve result shown by rcvnode . Store you Shape s somewhere in Dropbox, I solve it in 10 minutes.– FelixIPCommented Dec 11, 2017 at 0:08
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@FelixIP This is the link: dropbox.com/s/0c62n0cy5nebwl6/TEXAS.zip?dl=0 If you can describe step by step what have you done in my example that would be great. JOINT_COUNT field is a field depending on which count I want to merge the polygons. Thx– user104851Commented Dec 11, 2017 at 15:29
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@FelixIP This is great. But could you please send me a script that you have used in my example (with my parameters). Sorry, I am new in coding.– user104851Commented Dec 12, 2017 at 0:00
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I took your polygons and converted them to single parts. For each part I recomputed number of offices pro rata of parts count in parent polygon. I applied procedure and script from the post mentioned in my comments with tolerance 0.05 and 316 groups, i.e. I tried to create 316 groups from 3059 original polygons with each group containing 1500 offices (total of offices=475169 ):
This is statistics of dissolved:
And these are results. Note I removed islands because they have no neighbours in your definition.
For more information on algorithm, see this post.
