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Generalization

An example use of the Generalization tool would be to simplify the wildlife refuges for the entire United States to make it render faster (i.e. the very high resolution data they provided was not necessary for the analysis).

Generalization Tool in ArcMap

Generalization (100 meters)

Original

Pre Generalized Example

Generalized to 100 meters

Shapefile Generalized to 100 meters

Generalization (1000 meters)

Original

Pre-Generalized Example

Generalized to 1000 meters

Generalized to 1000 meters

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