https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/converting-multiple-parallel-lines-to-1-average/m-p/1176220#M55418 <P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="FraserM_0-1653211218306.png" style="width: 400px;"><img src="https://community.esri.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/41887i3688E94E3A42B850/image-size/medium?v=v2&amp;px=400" role="button" title="FraserM_0-1653211218306.png" alt="FraserM_0-1653211218306.png" /></span></P><P>I have a railway dataset. I am wanting to do route analysis on it but it fails to solve most of the time, because often there are many lines on one route. Is there a way to simplify the above into 1 line that is the average position of the 4 lines in the pic above? Like below</P><P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="FraserM_2-1653211346773.png" style="width: 400px;"><img src="https://community.esri.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/41889i67D71DDC9CAD1F81/image-size/medium?v=v2&amp;px=400" role="button" title="FraserM_2-1653211346773.png" alt="FraserM_2-1653211346773.png" /></span></P><P>Thanks</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P> Sun, 22 May 2022 09:23:23 GMT FraserM 2022-05-22T09:23:23Z https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/converting-multiple-parallel-lines-to-1-average/m-p/1176220#M55418 <P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="FraserM_0-1653211218306.png" style="width: 400px;"><img src="https://community.esri.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/41887i3688E94E3A42B850/image-size/medium?v=v2&amp;px=400" role="button" title="FraserM_0-1653211218306.png" alt="FraserM_0-1653211218306.png" /></span></P><P>I have a railway dataset. I am wanting to do route analysis on it but it fails to solve most of the time, because often there are many lines on one route. Is there a way to simplify the above into 1 line that is the average position of the 4 lines in the pic above? Like below</P><P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="FraserM_2-1653211346773.png" style="width: 400px;"><img src="https://community.esri.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/41889i67D71DDC9CAD1F81/image-size/medium?v=v2&amp;px=400" role="button" title="FraserM_2-1653211346773.png" alt="FraserM_2-1653211346773.png" /></span></P><P>Thanks</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P> Sun, 22 May 2022 09:23:23 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/converting-multiple-parallel-lines-to-1-average/m-p/1176220#M55418 FraserM 2022-05-22T09:23:23Z https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/converting-multiple-parallel-lines-to-1-average/m-p/1176552#M55452 <P>I found the&nbsp;<SPAN>Merge Divided Road tool and tried to use it, but it didnt really work - it went haywire with the big train yards with 10+ tracks next to each other. I will try and find a simplified dataset - I did have one originally but it was a bit TOO simplified</SPAN></P> Mon, 23 May 2022 18:33:20 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/converting-multiple-parallel-lines-to-1-average/m-p/1176552#M55452 FraserM 2022-05-23T18:33:20Z https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/converting-multiple-parallel-lines-to-1-average/m-p/1176556#M55453 <P>If the two lines are next to each other cannot you mark them as having different directions.</P><P>Typically parallel rails are different directions.</P><P>&nbsp;</P> Mon, 23 May 2022 18:45:20 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/converting-multiple-parallel-lines-to-1-average/m-p/1176556#M55453 RobertBorchert 2022-05-23T18:45:20Z