Currently I have:
A polygon layer with a population attribute
A point file containing facility locations.
Facility A has a catchment area of x amount of people. What tools can I utilize that will allow me to create a catchment of those polygons that bring a sum of x?
Which tool will work best for this scenario?
Thanks very much,
Justin
You could iterate through a loop with a NeighborFinder to first of all find all polygons with a facility in them and then "grow" those by adding touching polygons, adding up the population numbers until you reach "or get close" to your treshold value.
With polygons it'll be a rough approximation and you'll most likely not end up with the exact numbers. If you have population points (addresses with the number of people living there) you can get a better result.