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Closest Feature Distance Wizard

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

Inputs:

• A feature layer
• Search tolerance - the maximum distance to search for features in the distance layer

Outputs:

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

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  layer is of polygon type all the poligons that are within another 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
• The distance is calculated in the Spatial Reference of the data frame (the View)
• If there are more than one features with the same distance to a feature (for example intersecting polylines) only one of the ID's will be recorded in the [ET_ Closest] field.