How to get closest LINE to a point

WalterEralio

I have a street layer with each street segment and I need to find the closest one to a particular lat-lon (sort of reverse geocoding but without the locator .. I don't have one) - Back on arcims I used to do incremental buffers till I got to a street segment but it sounds inefficient... any idea?

AntGiles

Walter,

You could set up a geoprocessing task that takes the lat-long location as an input, creates a point file from it then performs a near analysis against your street layer to find the nearest street. Have a look at the near analysis tool:

http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/main/10.1/index.html#//00080000001q000000

Regards

Anthony