topic Ordering points along a meandering line in Geoprocessing Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/ordering-points-along-a-meandering-line/m-p/433112#M14577 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I have two point feature classes.&nbsp; One is a set of points that generally follow a meandering linear path (let's call this Dataset A).&nbsp; Dataset A has a "Group Name" attribute, the meandering path is segmented into groups. The other data serves as endpoints along those meandering paths, these endpoints segment .&nbsp; The endpoints have 2 attributes, Start Group and Stop Group.</P><P></P><P>I want to order the points numerically from the Start endpoint to the End endpoint so that I can create a table of coordinates that lists them in the order that you would travel from Start to End.&nbsp; Since the path meanders and curves, I can't necessarily just order them North to South or anything like that.&nbsp;</P><P></P><P>Ideally I would like the process to go:</P><P>-Select a start endpoint, and find the nearest point from Dataset A in the corresponding group.</P><P>-Populate the order attribute with the number 1, then go to the next nearest point.&nbsp;</P><P>- If the next nearest point is in Dataset A, populate with n+1, If its the Stop Endpoint, move the next group and start over at 1.</P><P></P><P>The attached image should hopefully help.&nbsp; The red squares are the endpoints...the labels showing the start and stop group they belong to.&nbsp; The circles are color coded by group.</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 12 Mar 2019 18:25:16 GMT deleted-user-ka73FBRGJUOO 2019-03-12T18:25:16Z Ordering points along a meandering line https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/ordering-points-along-a-meandering-line/m-p/433112#M14577 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I have two point feature classes.&nbsp; One is a set of points that generally follow a meandering linear path (let's call this Dataset A).&nbsp; Dataset A has a "Group Name" attribute, the meandering path is segmented into groups. The other data serves as endpoints along those meandering paths, these endpoints segment .&nbsp; The endpoints have 2 attributes, Start Group and Stop Group.</P><P></P><P>I want to order the points numerically from the Start endpoint to the End endpoint so that I can create a table of coordinates that lists them in the order that you would travel from Start to End.&nbsp; Since the path meanders and curves, I can't necessarily just order them North to South or anything like that.&nbsp;</P><P></P><P>Ideally I would like the process to go:</P><P>-Select a start endpoint, and find the nearest point from Dataset A in the corresponding group.</P><P>-Populate the order attribute with the number 1, then go to the next nearest point.&nbsp;</P><P>- If the next nearest point is in Dataset A, populate with n+1, If its the Stop Endpoint, move the next group and start over at 1.</P><P></P><P>The attached image should hopefully help.&nbsp; The red squares are the endpoints...the labels showing the start and stop group they belong to.&nbsp; The circles are color coded by group.</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 12 Mar 2019 18:25:16 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/ordering-points-along-a-meandering-line/m-p/433112#M14577 deleted-user-ka73FBRGJUOO 2019-03-12T18:25:16Z