topic Average distance between two polylines in a shapefile in Spatial Statistics Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/spatial-statistics-questions/average-distance-between-two-polylines-in-a/m-p/503740#M1614 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>So I'm not very sophisticated at this but would love to hear if there is an easy way to calculate the mean distance between polylines. I am not very familiar with the tools so I need detailed instructions where to find the tool and use it. I have 4 polylines in a shapefile. Some interesect at some points, but there is a general separation. How do I find mean distance between them?</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 06 Dec 2013 22:50:06 GMT AndreaPickart 2013-12-06T22:50:06Z Average distance between two polylines in a shapefile https://community.esri.com/t5/spatial-statistics-questions/average-distance-between-two-polylines-in-a/m-p/503740#M1614 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>So I'm not very sophisticated at this but would love to hear if there is an easy way to calculate the mean distance between polylines. I am not very familiar with the tools so I need detailed instructions where to find the tool and use it. I have 4 polylines in a shapefile. Some interesect at some points, but there is a general separation. How do I find mean distance between them?</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 06 Dec 2013 22:50:06 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/spatial-statistics-questions/average-distance-between-two-polylines-in-a/m-p/503740#M1614 AndreaPickart 2013-12-06T22:50:06Z Re: Average distance between two polylines in a shapefile https://community.esri.com/t5/spatial-statistics-questions/average-distance-between-two-polylines-in-a/m-p/503741#M1615 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Check out </SPAN><A href="http://forums.arcgis.com/threads/47780-Distance-between-two-linear-features">this existing thread</A><SPAN> for some initial ideas on how you might go about this. Another option is to sample your point at regular small intervals, and then do a Near analysis on the two sets of points, and average the distances between the paired point samples.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Sun, 08 Dec 2013 05:00:24 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/spatial-statistics-questions/average-distance-between-two-polylines-in-a/m-p/503741#M1615 ShaunWalbridge 2013-12-08T05:00:24Z