Calculate Adjacent Fields (Cartography)

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Summary

Creates fields and calculates values for the neighboring pages (polygon) of a grid polygon feature class.

The most common use case for this tool is to populate fields that can be used to label the adjacent pages in a map book. This tool appends eight new fields (each field representing one of the eight points of the compass: North, Northeast, East, Southeast, South, Southwest, West, and Northwest) to the input feature class and calculates values that identify the adjacent (neighboring) polygons, in each cardinal direction, for each feature in the input feature class.

Usage

  • This tool creates eight fields whose names are a combination of the Field Name value and direction. The direction is abbreviated. For example, if the Field Name value is PageName, the new field names created by the tool would be PageName_N, PageName_NE, PageName_E, PageName_SE, PageName_S, PageName_SW, PageName_W, and PageName_NW. If the Field Name value is MyPoly, the new field names would be MyPoly_N, MyPoly_NE, MyPoly_E, MyPoly_SE, MyPoly_S, MyPoly_SW, MyPoly_W, and MyPoly_NW.

  • The tool uses default names for new fields. The field names can be altered after the tool has run.

  • You can use fields from a joined table.

Parameters

LabelExplanationData Type
Input Features

The polygon grid index features that will be appended with adjacent field data.

Feature Layer
Field Name

The field whose values will be used to populate adjacent field data.

Field

Derived Output

LabelExplanationData Type
Output Features

The updated feature class with adjacent field data.

Feature Layer

Environments

Licensing information

  • Basic: Yes
  • Standard: Yes
  • Advanced: Yes

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