Planar vs Geodesic Measurements in ArcGIS Pro

Planar vs Geodesic - What's the difference? ArcGIS Pro has different ways to measure distances, the Buffer Tool has two methods as a parameter. Which should you use? I'll provide a short explanation.
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[@JeremyZimmerman]

Good quick video on the subject. I'll be sharing this regularly as I get this question more often than you'd expect from end users.

[@GISChops]

Thanks for watching Jeremy!

[@AnchorageJC]

Nice description, the contact lens example was simple. A lot less messy than the orange peel method. Hey Chops, how about some chops on metadata. I find Pro much harder to navigate metadata than ArcMap, especially with Catalog. The nuance of perm. saving of metadata from Catalog pane vs TOC is a huge time saver when perm. assigning metadata, and the exposure of FGDC metadata under OPTIONS from the project. ESRI tends to take the simple route, defaulting to item description, but for those of us long in the industry, we have most of our metadata in great detail that is NOT exposed in the silly short item description. anyways, metadata is key first step when trying to solve small or huge shifts with coordinate system issues. Nice job!

[@GISChops]

Thanks for such a great comment. I will have to look at doing a video on metadata, because I definitely have all of mine done and up to date. 😉

[@MImad-rv5gt]

thanks well explained

[@GISChops]

Glad it helped!

[@michaelblinn3761]

So what is loxodromic and great elliptic measurement? Loxodromic sounds like an evil villain

[@GISChops]

Right? I thought this definition was pretty cool - www.britannica.com/topic/loxodrome