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Creating line segments between 2 or more points

DavidKossowsky

Hello,

I am trying to create line segments between different cities in the world. I've previously used Spider Tools: http://arcscripts.esri.com/details.asp?dbid=14908 and it worked quite well when I was mapping from one main point to many others. e.g. A -> B, A -> C, A -> D, A -> E....

My issue now is that I have connection cities in between, so I need to map
A --> B
A--> B --> C
A --> C --> D
A --> B --> E --> F ...

Does anybody know of a way I can get these lines to automatically be created? It seems like it would be relatively simple - just connecting the dots based on location, but I can't find anything that would do this for me.

Thanks!

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Public_HealthObservatory

Hi there,
I'm having a similar problem (http://forums.arcgis.com/threads/11686-Spider-lines-with-a-twist-how-to-get-from-point-A-to-point-B-via-point-C?highlight=spider+lines). Did you manage to solve yours?

Hello,

I am trying to create line segments between different cities in the world. I've previously used Spider Tools: http://arcscripts.esri.com/details.asp?dbid=14908 and it worked quite well when I was mapping from one main point to many others. e.g. A -> B, A -> C, A -> D, A -> E....

My issue now is that I have connection cities in between, so I need to map
A --> B
A--> B --> C
A --> C --> D
A --> B --> E --> F ...

Does anybody know of a way I can get these lines to automatically be created? It seems like it would be relatively simple - just connecting the dots based on location, but I can't find anything that would do this for me.

Thanks!

DavidKossowsky

Hi skimmer,

No solution yet. I've been trying to tweak spider tools and my data to assist in the calculations, but as I too have many many points (about 4000), it is impossible to divide up the data in such a way that I can calculate all the routes and still manage all the layers.

I'll keep you updated if any progress is made. Please do the same for me.

Thanks,
David

P.S. I have looked into Network Analyst quite a bit but from what I've seen it doesn't help with this issue. I'm not sure if anybody else is able to confirm this..

JaclynGorman

I posted on Skimmer's thread already but you should try Xtools Pro. (Search on Google) It has a point to line feature that allows you to have a sequential number and an ID property. So basically it will create a line between multiple points in order if they have the same ID. Your problem seems a little more tricky then Skimmers but you could try to create different ID and Order fields based on specific properties.

Jaclyn

Mr_Kirkwood

is there a Spider tools that works with Arc 10?

TimHopper

I would check out the new "Points to Line" tool that's included at ArcGIS 10.

Data Management Tools > Features > Points to Line

http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisdesktop/10.0/help/index.html#//00170000003s000000.htm

Mr_Kirkwood

I would check out the new "Points to Line" tool that's included at ArcGIS 10.

Data Management Tools > Features > Points to Line

http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisdesktop/10.0/help/index.html#//00170000003s000000.htm

Thanks! that worked...

EricNicks

Is there an equivalent to "points to line" in the silverlight API?

SlukaLesni

Hi, I'm a beginner in Arcgis and I have a similar problem as dakaye. I need to create segments between points but the problem is that some points are repeated in many segments. That's why I can't use "Points to Line" tool in Arcgis 10. I have data like:

segment id, starting point id, end point id

It looks really simple but though I spent a lot of time by searching I still don't know how to figure out. I would appriciate any help. Thanks

NicoleHanson

Hi, I'm a beginner in Arcgis and I have a similar problem as dakaye. I need to create segments between points but the problem is that some points are repeated in many segments. That's why I can't use "Points to Line" tool in Arcgis 10. I have data like:

segment id, starting point id, end point id

It looks really simple but though I spent a lot of time by searching I still don't know how to figure out. I would appriciate any help. Thanks

could you provide more detail? Maybe a snapshot of your data, or if its ok, post it here?

SlukaLesni

could you provide more detail? Maybe a snapshot of your data, or if its ok, post it here?

Here are some data. start_point and end_point are IDs of existing points in my map (no coordinates). You can see some points should be common for several segments. Thanks for your help.

data_sample.xlsx

NicoleHanson

OK, here's what I would do. Not sure if there's an easier way, but:

Create X, Y for the starting points and for the ending points. Then you can do XY to line. Where you'll enter the Start X Field, Start Y Field, End X and End Y. You'll also be able to chose what kind of line, enter what field is the ID and the spatial reference. But it'll work.

SlukaLesni

Thanks a lot for your answer. It really helped. I finally managed to do it by assigning coordinates of the points to the IDs in excell and then it was easy with XY to line.

NicoleHanson

Yea! Glad it worked!

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