topic Re: Combination point and line data in Geoprocessing Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/combination-point-and-line-data/m-p/574988#M18969 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Is your pipe data one line or multiple lines one for each depth?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>You will have to break your pipe at the various depths.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>You can snap your point to the edge of the pipes.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Try the Identity tool (if you have spatial analyst extension)</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>You can also do a join that shows you the distance to the nearest feature.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Are there a large number of depth values?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>If there only a few (like 20 or so) select all the depths for say 10 feet.&nbsp; Then do a Select by location and select all the pipes within 5 feet or so.&nbsp; Here is would be better if you did the bulk snap and snapped all your points to a pipe.&nbsp; then you could do the spatial join like you did and create a new feature class with the depths attached. </SPAN><BR /><BR /><BR /><BLOCKQUOTE class="jive-quote">Hi,<BR /><BR />I have polyline data with line segments for a pipe network and point data for the depths of the pipes at certain (deviant) points. I want to combine these two datasets into a new dataset. Any suggestions on how I can do this efficiently? I tried spatial join where the points and lines intersect, but because only some of the points lie precisely on a line segment, I got very few results. Spatial join by point closest to the line doesn't work for me either, because not every line segment has a point. <BR /><BR />What I want is the depth attribute for each point to be added to the attribute table in the row of the closest line. How can I automate this?</BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML> Tue, 12 Nov 2013 15:30:14 GMT RobertBorchert 2013-11-12T15:30:14Z Combination point and line data https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/combination-point-and-line-data/m-p/574987#M18968 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I have polyline data with line segments for a pipe network and point data for the depths of the pipes at certain (deviant) points. I want to combine these two datasets into a new dataset. Any suggestions on how I can do this efficiently? I tried spatial join where the points and lines intersect, but because only some of the points lie precisely on a line segment, I got very few results. Spatial join by point closest to the line doesn't work for me either, because not every line segment has a point. </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>What I want is the depth attribute for each point to be added to the attribute table in the row of the closest line. How can I automate this?</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 12 Nov 2013 12:49:21 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/combination-point-and-line-data/m-p/574987#M18968 ErinKennedy 2013-11-12T12:49:21Z Re: Combination point and line data https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/combination-point-and-line-data/m-p/574988#M18969 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Is your pipe data one line or multiple lines one for each depth?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>You will have to break your pipe at the various depths.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>You can snap your point to the edge of the pipes.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Try the Identity tool (if you have spatial analyst extension)</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>You can also do a join that shows you the distance to the nearest feature.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Are there a large number of depth values?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>If there only a few (like 20 or so) select all the depths for say 10 feet.&nbsp; Then do a Select by location and select all the pipes within 5 feet or so.&nbsp; Here is would be better if you did the bulk snap and snapped all your points to a pipe.&nbsp; then you could do the spatial join like you did and create a new feature class with the depths attached. </SPAN><BR /><BR /><BR /><BLOCKQUOTE class="jive-quote">Hi,<BR /><BR />I have polyline data with line segments for a pipe network and point data for the depths of the pipes at certain (deviant) points. I want to combine these two datasets into a new dataset. Any suggestions on how I can do this efficiently? I tried spatial join where the points and lines intersect, but because only some of the points lie precisely on a line segment, I got very few results. Spatial join by point closest to the line doesn't work for me either, because not every line segment has a point. <BR /><BR />What I want is the depth attribute for each point to be added to the attribute table in the row of the closest line. How can I automate this?</BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML> Tue, 12 Nov 2013 15:30:14 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/combination-point-and-line-data/m-p/574988#M18969 RobertBorchert 2013-11-12T15:30:14Z