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Challenge #423: Wind Tower Proximity—Earth Day Special

AGilbert
11 - Bolide

With spatial expressions as an alternative to the find nearest tool. 

 

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jeprime
7 - Meteor

It was definitely a challenge, as spatial work is not common in my workflows. Thanks for the practice.

binuacs
20 - Arcturus
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Watermark
12 - Quasar
12 - Quasar

 

JSON parse makes life easier. Use the column definitions in the container to also make life easier. 

 

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AaronSmatta
8 - Asteroid

Happy Earth Day

Qiu
21 - Polaris
21 - Polaris

It is a fun challenge.

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And as noticed before the "Maximum Distances" field in the "Find Nearest" tool can not accept manual input anymore. 😬
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AGilbert
11 - Bolide

Re: Find Nearest tool in 2023.2 - Alteryx Community

 

@Qiu the XML of the find nearest tool can be updated to use it as it was prior to the 2023.2 software release.

Qiu
21 - Polaris
21 - Polaris

@AGilbert 
This is good to know. Thank you very much.

TurboToad
10 - Fireball

Happy Earth day! 🌳🌻

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Yoshiro_Fujimori
15 - Aurora

My solution.

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Expression in Formula tool
Irvine HQ = 
ST_CreatePoint(
ToNumber(REGEX_Replace([Irvine HQ (lat, long)], "^.*, ", "")),
ToNumber(REGEX_Replace([Irvine HQ (lat, long)], ",.*", ""))
)