Line symbology for overlaps that does not distinguish intersects

BiscuitsAndGravey

Hello, 

I have a user who wishes for a line service to distinguish between features that overlap within the same feature class, but not to distinguish when segments intersect. 

I have included a picture of what I have been able to provide thus far with the symbology along with a picture of what they would like. 

The line feature does not include elevation and only the digitization of the feature indicate overlap and intersect. 

 

Any suggestions would be appreciated 🙂

DavidSolari

Unless someone comes along with some really clever symbology tricks this isn't possible as the ArcGIS renderer can't distinguish between lines that intersect midspan vs lines that intersect at an endpoint. But if the data changes infrequently then you can do this:

1. Run Feature Vertices to Points in BOTH_ENDS mode. If you don't have an Advanced license you'll need to dive into arcpy and write your own tool.
2. Run Pairwise Intersect with an output type of POINT.
3. Select the intersect output using the feature vertices to points output, then delete the selected features. You're now left with only true intersections.
4. Replace all the data in an "Intersections" point feature service you created with this new data. The service can be added on top of the lines to clearly highlight the intersections.
5. Optional: enable symbol layer drawing so the lines have nice joints. This won't work with every type of service.

Kinda clunky but it clearly indicates the intersections for your user(s).