Spring 2017
   GEO327G/386G: GIS & GPS Applications in Earth Sciences


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25. 

How to extract a bearing (azimuth) for a polyline.

   
 

A Line_Bearing attribute field can be added to a polyline attribute table by using the Add Geometry Attributes tool.  The bearing is the direction from the start to end nodes of the polyline.  Directions are geographic 0=North, 90=East, 180= South, etc.  This same tool can return the starting, ending and midpoints coordinates of a line, centroid coordinates of polygons, and several other geometric properties.
 

   
       
       

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