Challenge #82: Are You in the Path of the Solar Eclipse?

[RichoBsJ]

Hi! Here my solution :)

I've plotted the boundaries, and calcutaed the distance from those to my secret position

[OldDogNewTricks]

My solution attached...interesting.

[princejindal]

Great challenge and fun with the maps!

[cplewis90]

When the eclipse happened, I was much close than I am now (Arkansas vs Texas). 

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I struggled a bit with the conversion as I was missing the fact that the longitude's needed to be multiplied by -1. Had to look up the conversion online.

[DawnDuong]

I initially got really weird distance values - then it turned out I put the "Line" where it should be a point or centroid. Strange that the workflow still ran - something new for me.

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[Kenda]

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[TonyA]

My solution is attached.

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Similar to a few other people I created a polygon in addition to the lines to be able to use spatial tools to determine if a point was in the path of the eclipse. I built the lines and points first and then intersected the objects with US boundaries to make sure I caught the coastal areas. An alternative to building the polygon might have been to measure the distance to all three lines. If the distance to the center line was smaller than the distance to the north line or the distance to the south line then you would be in the region of totality.

[KMiller]

Solution attached with a phony US address as I live in Jersey, Channel Islands.

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[Ozzy_Campos]

Great challenge, issues with parsing at beginning and understanding what went where, but learned a lot.  

[TimothyManning]

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Couldn't get the polygon to work at the end, but used polylines instead. Needed to remove the null rows to get rid of the "Non point object in polybuild" error