topic Re: Splitting Lines usign Polygons in Geoprocessing Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/splitting-lines-usign-polygons/m-p/575146#M18984 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi Sol,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>This doesn't do what i require. Clip just trims the lines by the outermost extent of the polygon. </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>What I want to do is split the lines where the polygons cross the lines. Whats the right tool?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thanks</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Sam</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 27 Mar 2014 08:24:41 GMT SamMcGauley 2014-03-27T08:24:41Z Splitting Lines usign Polygons https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/splitting-lines-usign-polygons/m-p/575145#M18983 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi I think this is a relativly simple question. </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>ArcMap v9.2.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I have a lot of line data in a shape file that i need to split by a a number of polygons in another shape file. What is the best way to do this?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>What I want to end up with is a list of lines in a shapefile that fall into each of the polygons.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thanks</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Sam</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 26 Mar 2014 15:09:03 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/splitting-lines-usign-polygons/m-p/575145#M18983 SamMcGauley 2014-03-26T15:09:03Z Re: Splitting Lines usign Polygons https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/splitting-lines-usign-polygons/m-p/575146#M18984 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi Sol,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>This doesn't do what i require. Clip just trims the lines by the outermost extent of the polygon. </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>What I want to do is split the lines where the polygons cross the lines. Whats the right tool?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thanks</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Sam</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 27 Mar 2014 08:24:41 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/splitting-lines-usign-polygons/m-p/575146#M18984 SamMcGauley 2014-03-27T08:24:41Z Re: Splitting Lines usign Polygons https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/splitting-lines-usign-polygons/m-p/575147#M18985 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Use the Intersect Geoprocessing tool to achieve what you want.&nbsp; It will discover the intersections between features from the inputs. This can be useful to discover polygon overlap and line intersections (as points or lines).</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 27 Mar 2014 10:17:22 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/splitting-lines-usign-polygons/m-p/575147#M18985 WilliamCraft 2014-03-27T10:17:22Z Re: Splitting Lines usign Polygons https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/splitting-lines-usign-polygons/m-p/575148#M18986 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I have tried intersect and it works on some of the lines but not all?!</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>there are still lines that cross polygons that havent been split - why woudl this be?</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 27 Mar 2014 10:23:56 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/splitting-lines-usign-polygons/m-p/575148#M18986 SamMcGauley 2014-03-27T10:23:56Z