topic Re: Remove duplicate lines in Data Management Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/remove-duplicate-lines/m-p/253433#M14457 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Don't know if I really understand. But the normal erase is a free function in ET Geowizard, I do use it often ...</P><P>Do you have the identical lines in one fc or in two?</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 17 Jul 2014 09:36:49 GMT JohannesBierer 2014-07-17T09:36:49Z Remove duplicate lines https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/remove-duplicate-lines/m-p/253430#M14454 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>(I've removed duplicate points by doing a dissolve on XY coords.)</P><P></P><P>Now I need to remove duplicate lines (by duplicate I mean identical geometry - they may have different attributes but I don't care which one I keep).&nbsp; I've used the Intersect tool to identify the duplicates but I don't know how to merge each duplicate into single records.&nbsp; I have 7000 duplicates so manual merging isn't a realistic option.</P><P></P><P>I'm on standard licence.</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 16 Jul 2014 11:38:57 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/remove-duplicate-lines/m-p/253430#M14454 BenLeslie1 2014-07-16T11:38:57Z Re: Remove duplicate lines https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/remove-duplicate-lines/m-p/253431#M14455 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P><A rel="nofollow">You could erase the dublicates with ET Geowizzard (free function) or one of the Erase models ...?</A></P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 16 Jul 2014 12:03:30 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/remove-duplicate-lines/m-p/253431#M14455 JohannesBierer 2014-07-16T12:03:30Z Re: Remove duplicate lines https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/remove-duplicate-lines/m-p/253432#M14456 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Unfortunately erase duplicates isn't one of the free functions in ET Geowizards.</P><P></P><P>I'm attempting to iterate through my dataset, selecting identical and deleting using model builder.&nbsp; It's not very intuative - had some strange results.... currently running attempt 3..... fingers crossed.</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 17 Jul 2014 09:10:23 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/remove-duplicate-lines/m-p/253432#M14456 BenLeslie1 2014-07-17T09:10:23Z Re: Remove duplicate lines https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/remove-duplicate-lines/m-p/253433#M14457 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Don't know if I really understand. But the normal erase is a free function in ET Geowizard, I do use it often ...</P><P>Do you have the identical lines in one fc or in two?</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 17 Jul 2014 09:36:49 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/remove-duplicate-lines/m-p/253433#M14457 JohannesBierer 2014-07-17T09:36:49Z Re: Remove duplicate lines https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/remove-duplicate-lines/m-p/253434#M14458 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Just one dataset (actually it was originally about 120 but I've merged them all into one - that's the goal, one dataset with duplicate geometries removed)</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 17 Jul 2014 09:48:51 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/remove-duplicate-lines/m-p/253434#M14458 BenLeslie1 2014-07-17T09:48:51Z Re: Remove duplicate lines https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/remove-duplicate-lines/m-p/253435#M14459 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Maybe you could use the python script there:</P><P><A href="http://forums.esri.com/Thread.asp?c=93&amp;f=987&amp;t=296213" title="http://forums.esri.com/Thread.asp?c=93&amp;f=987&amp;t=296213">How to delete duplicates...</A>‌</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 17 Jul 2014 10:00:44 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/remove-duplicate-lines/m-p/253435#M14459 JohannesBierer 2014-07-17T10:00:44Z