Create Non-overlapping Trade Areas with Different Ring Sizes

Question

Hi, I am having trouble creating non-overlapping trade area rings for different sized radii. I need some trade areas to be 1 mile non-overlapping and others 3 mile non-overlapping. I can't get the 1 mile and 3 mile rings to eliminate overlap against each other. Thank you for the help!

Non-Overlapping Trade Areas.yxmd

CoG · Answer

This was a challenging and fun problem. I have grander ideas, but for now, here is a workflow that I believe achieves the desired objective. The key is to recognize that if you create a fixed trade area of 1, then those non-overlapping regions will still be associated with their centroids even after expanding the subset of points that have a target radius of 3 miles. Because of this we can then calculate non-overlapping areas for only that subset of points with a fixed trade-area of 3, remove all regions from points with trade area 1, and what we're left with is now the combined non-overlapping trade area map!

Hope this helps and Happy Solving!

Sample Workflow.yxmd

gprisinzano · Answer

Hey, I appreciate you helping out. I've tried messing with the Spatial Process tool, but haven't quite gotten it to work the way I need.

How can I get the output to more resemble this?

dreldrel · Answer

I've attached the workflow. Give it a try.

Non-Overlapping Trade Areas.yxmd