I would like to find the maximum amount of points within a specified domain that are a certain distance from each other. For example, how many points within an area are 1000ft from each other? I envision each point with a radius of the desired distance, but I don't know if I must start with a point or what.
[GIS] Finding points a certain distance from each other
arcgis-10.0
Best Answer
It sounds to me that you would get an answer to your question by creating a subset of your points dataset and running Near analysis (if you're using ArcGIS) on it subset choosing it as both: near and input features. Description of that tool. Having done this you would be able to choose points that have a neighbor in the same dataset within certain distance.