Assign by Closest Stores Location (Business Analyst)
Zusammenfassung
Assigns customers to stores by closest location using a straight-line distance method.
Verwendung
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You cannot undo the assignment of customers to stores in an existing field.
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Customers are assigned to the closest store location.
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Assignments are based on a straight-line Euclidean distance calculation.
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Use the Assign By Trade Area tool if you do not want to assign customers using a straight-line distance. The Assign By Trade Area tool can be used with drive-time polygons.
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If a customer is at an equal distance from two or more stores, the customer will be assigned to the first store in the attribute table.
Syntax
Parameter | Erläuterung | Datentyp |
InputFeatureLayer |
The store layer to which to assign customers. | Feature Layer |
IdField |
The unique identifier of each store. | Field |
CustomerLayer |
The customer layer used to make the customer assignments to each store. | Feature Layer |
LinkField |
The field that will be populated with the associated store ID. | Field |
UseSelectedFeatures (optional) |
Customers are assigned by selected features of the customer layer.
| Boolean |
WayToDefineLinkField (optional) |
Selects an existing store ID field or creates a new field.
| Boolean |
CreateNewFeatureClass (optional) |
Generates a new feature class based on the existing layer or uses the existing layer.
| Boolean |
OutputFeatureClass (optional) |
The feature class that will contain the assigned features. | Feature Class |
Codebeispiel
# Name: AssignCustomersByLocation.py # Description: Assigns customers in the San Francisco area to their designated stores by closest location using a straight-line distance metho # Author: ESRI # Import system modules import arview import arcpy arcpy.ImportToolbox("C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Desktop10.0\ArcToolbox\Toolboxes\Business Analyst Tools.tbx") try: # Acquire extension license arcpy.CheckOutExtension("Business") # Defines the parameters for the Assign by Closest Stores Location tool StorePath = "C:/temp/sf_stores.shp" CustPath = "C:/temp/sf_cust.shp" StoreId = "STORE_ID" StoreLink = "STORE_ID" # Assigns by Closest Stores Location arcpy.AssignCustomersByLocation_ba(StorePath, StoreId, CustPath, StoreLink, "false") # Release extension license arcpy.CheckInExtension("Business") except: print arcpy.GetMessages(2)