I am trying to create some visualisations using bus journey data. I am looking to plot journeys along one long road, showing passenge journeys. The principle is the same as a radial flow map for flight paths for example. However the geographical area is much smaller as it only covers one road.
This is where I am running into problems. I have the data in StartX,Y and End X,Y format and then with each possible journey I have a total number.
I have tried plotting this as XY to Line using the various different Line Types (e.g. Geodesic). The result is a series of straight lines on top one another. Ideally I would like to produce a series of curved lines so that you can see the different journeys a bit more clearly.
I have tried to research this problem quite extensively online but the majority of cases are plotting data over a much wider geographical area.
Is there a way to produce a curve / arc between a start and end point?
I do not want to do this manually as I have large number of lines to plot.
I would like to use ArcMap.
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I guess you might play with minor axis length (SMALL in above) and make it variable to show multiple journeys or manually delete ellipses' parts if automatic removal doesn't look right.