topic Union overlapping polylines and summarizing attributes in Geoprocessing Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/union-overlapping-polylines-and-summarizing/m-p/230520#M7967 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi!</P><P style="min-height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&nbsp;</P><P>I have a shapefile containing many overlapping polylines that represents different paving operations of road segments. Every polyline contains many attributes and one of the attributes is the increase [cm] of pavement thickness. The&nbsp; goal is to unify these polylines and sum the total pavement thickness in every section of the road. What should I do?</P><P>I hope the photo clarifies the situation.</P><P><A href="https://community.esri.com/legacyfs/online/54743_2.jpg"><IMG alt="2.jpg" class="image-1 jive-image" height="896" src="https://community.esri.com/legacyfs/online/54743_2.jpg" style="width: 620px; height: 496px;" width="1120" /></A></P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 26 Jan 2015 09:25:16 GMT TommiYliniemi 2015-01-26T09:25:16Z Union overlapping polylines and summarizing attributes https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/union-overlapping-polylines-and-summarizing/m-p/230520#M7967 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi!</P><P style="min-height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&nbsp;</P><P>I have a shapefile containing many overlapping polylines that represents different paving operations of road segments. Every polyline contains many attributes and one of the attributes is the increase [cm] of pavement thickness. The&nbsp; goal is to unify these polylines and sum the total pavement thickness in every section of the road. What should I do?</P><P>I hope the photo clarifies the situation.</P><P><A href="https://community.esri.com/legacyfs/online/54743_2.jpg"><IMG alt="2.jpg" class="image-1 jive-image" height="896" src="https://community.esri.com/legacyfs/online/54743_2.jpg" style="width: 620px; height: 496px;" width="1120" /></A></P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 26 Jan 2015 09:25:16 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/union-overlapping-polylines-and-summarizing/m-p/230520#M7967 TommiYliniemi 2015-01-26T09:25:16Z Re: Union overlapping polylines and summarizing attributes https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/union-overlapping-polylines-and-summarizing/m-p/230521#M7968 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I would generate a 3D surface with the thickness data of each line as elevation, then apply map algebra to sum that value in every surface and finally use "Interpolate Shape" tool to get the accummulated thickness. If there's another way to do it I would like to know it</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 26 Jan 2015 13:51:03 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/union-overlapping-polylines-and-summarizing/m-p/230521#M7968 Marco_AlejandroBonilla 2015-01-26T13:51:03Z