{"id":991842,"date":"2020-08-28T12:50:17","date_gmt":"2020-08-28T19:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/?post_type=blog&#038;p=991842"},"modified":"2020-09-01T12:15:27","modified_gmt":"2020-09-01T19:15:27","slug":"remove-overlap-tool-arcgis-business-analyst-pro","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/bus-analyst\/analytics\/remove-overlap-tool-arcgis-business-analyst-pro","title":{"rendered":"Remove Overlap in ArcGIS Business Analyst Pro"},"author":4121,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":""},"categories":[23341],"tags":[626901,42181,24321],"industry":[],"product":[36711,36561],"class_list":["post-991842","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-analytics","tag-arcgis-business-analyst","tag-arcgis-pro","tag-geoprocessing","product-bus-analyst","product-arcgis-pro"],"acf":{"short_description":"This is a brief overview of the Remove Overlap tool now available in the ArcGIS Business Analyst extension for ArcGIS Pro.","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p>This is the 2nd article in a 6-part series highlighting new capabilities in the <a href=\"https:\/\/pro.arcgis.com\/en\/pro-app\/help\/analysis\/business-analyst\/what-is-business-analyst-pro.htm\">ArcGIS Business Analyst extension<\/a>\u00a0for ArcGIS Pro 2.6 release from July 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The latest release of the Business Analyst extension for ArcGIS Pro contains the <a href=\"https:\/\/pro.arcgis.com\/en\/pro-app\/tool-reference\/business-analyst\/remove-overlap.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Remove Overlap tool<\/a> used to divide trade area boundaries &#8211; or any overlapping polygon layer.<\/p>\n<p>If &#8220;Remove Overlap&#8221; sounds familiar, it was a popular tool in Business Analyst extension for ArcMap. This next-generation version contains new functionality and powerful new algorithms to separate areas, such as the Theissen and Grid methods. This brief video explains those methods and provides a nice overview of the tool:<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"youtube","start_time":"0","end_time":"","youtube_video_url":"<iframe title=\"Use the Remove Overlap Geoprocessing Tool in ArcGIS Pro 2.6\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zvRBJ35ahD4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p>There are several use cases for using Remove Overlap, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Refine marketing campaigns<\/li>\n<li>Define delivery zones<\/li>\n<li>Remove operational inefficiencies<\/li>\n<li>Avoid double-counting customers or constituents<\/li>\n<li>Understand demographics of areas closest to your stores<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here is an example of store locations with several threshold rings overlapping. 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