Determine the geographic center

Hi all,

I have customer geographic data that has latitudes and longitudes and I am looking for a way to find the “Center of Gravity” for this data (i.e., one point which has the access to the most demand). Can you tell me how to approach this ?

Also , If I decide to have more than one center of gravity ( i.e , 2-3 points to get maximum coverage to demands) what would be the best way?

I am completely new to Spatial analytics so any examples would be appreciated.

Thanks

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MarqueeCrew

@prravich

Here is what you "can" do:

CREATE POINTS: Converts lat/lon to spatial object as "centroid"
POLY-BUILD: Build a convex Hull as a polygon that includes all of your centroids (optionally, you can group and create many polygons).
SPATIAL INFO: Output the Centroid as either (or both) Spatial Object and X & Y fields

All done....

Cheers,

Mark

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MarqueeCrew

@prravich

Here is what you "can" do:

CREATE POINTS: Converts lat/lon to spatial object as "centroid"
POLY-BUILD: Build a convex Hull as a polygon that includes all of your centroids (optionally, you can group and create many polygons).
SPATIAL INFO: Output the Centroid as either (or both) Spatial Object and X & Y fields

All done....

Cheers,

Mark

prravich

Thank you I tried and it works. That was so simple

I am still unclear on how to determine the second ask. Assume i have 10 customers randomly scattered, what are the three best places to place my store to get good coverage ? I need to create three polygons and find their center, but not sure how to proceed. Any thoughts?

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