topic Re: Calculating distance between point in different layers in ArcGIS Solutions Questions

Calculating distance between point in different layers

christophe_scheunders — Wed, 20 Feb 2019 09:59:30 GMT

Hi all,

I am trying to calculate the distance between 2 points but not the shortest distance:

1 layer contains the referencepoints eg 1 -1.1- 1.2-2.5 etc this is the "roadreference" and the numbers are not necessarily consecutive but add up or down. let's call it "roadreference".

The second points layer is the info collected at location let's call it "pavementinfo"

So i want to calculate the distance from each collected point realative to the point at the "roadreference".

the first pavement point starts at roadreference point 1.2 + 7m , the next collected point is 115m further so that point is at roadreferencepoint 1.3+22m.

Is this possible with an existing tool? Or is it simply not possible? Any ways to work around it?

Thanks

Re: Calculating distance between point in different layers

TedKowal — Wed, 20 Feb 2019 16:20:41 GMT

Look into Linear Referencing.... there are tools available to do what you want. But this require that you create "Routes."

Re: Calculating distance between point in different layers

TedKowal — Wed, 20 Feb 2019 16:28:48 GMT

I ran across this post in ersri online that you may find useful using arcgis runtime..... https://community.esri.com/thread/229025-create-points-at-equal-distance-along-a-polyline