FIND DISTANCES BETWEEN POWER POLES

nimitz

Hi all,

I have a Personal GEODB that contains Point FC (POLES), Line FC (OVERHEAD TRANSMISSION LINE). I'm trying to use the Point-Distance tool in Toolbox, but it's giving me funky results. I'm on 10.2.1 and Pro. 

Ideally I'd like to have a new column(or a new table if that won't work) that shows the distance between 2 power poles, ie. POLE205-POLE206 - 250'. Or something along those lines. 

When I run the tool, it's giving me 54,000 records, a lot more than I'd imagine for 854 transmission poles!

Many thanks,

ChrisDonohue__GISP

If the transmission towers are coincident with the lines and the lines are all connected without gaps (I know, probably too much to ask with CAD data sometimes), one workflow would be to split the transmission line by the tower points, add attribute fields to the split lines for start and end, then use a Join to add the tower information to the lines.  The result will be a line feature class attributed with the tower ID for each end of the line that you can then read the distances off of.

Here's a similar question that was posted on GeoNet recently.  The full process is described in detail at the end of the thread.

Distinguishing lines that connect different type of points 

You will also need this:

Split Line at Point—Data Management toolbox | ArcGIS for Desktop 

The one catch is that I don't know if ArcGIS Pro has all this. 

Chris Donohue, GISP