topic Exact distance location on a line in Transportation Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/transportation-questions/exact-distance-location-on-a-line/m-p/510769#M1690 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hello all! I am looking for a way to click on a line and find out the milepost information for that exact location. This is for a rail project that runs on top of historic Union Pacific rail, so ideally, I would be able to click on a area on the line and see the actual milepost and the historic Union Pacific milepost, which will be different because they have different starting points.</P><P>It would also be preferable to not have to cut the lines into segments.&nbsp;</P><P>Any thoughts would be helpful.</P><P>Thanks</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 05 Feb 2018 15:59:40 GMT SumersetEllis 2018-02-05T15:59:40Z Exact distance location on a line https://community.esri.com/t5/transportation-questions/exact-distance-location-on-a-line/m-p/510769#M1690 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hello all! I am looking for a way to click on a line and find out the milepost information for that exact location. This is for a rail project that runs on top of historic Union Pacific rail, so ideally, I would be able to click on a area on the line and see the actual milepost and the historic Union Pacific milepost, which will be different because they have different starting points.</P><P>It would also be preferable to not have to cut the lines into segments.&nbsp;</P><P>Any thoughts would be helpful.</P><P>Thanks</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 05 Feb 2018 15:59:40 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/transportation-questions/exact-distance-location-on-a-line/m-p/510769#M1690 SumersetEllis 2018-02-05T15:59:40Z Re: Exact distance location on a line https://community.esri.com/t5/transportation-questions/exact-distance-location-on-a-line/m-p/510770#M1691 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>split line at vertices, then assign attributes to the segments would be the first thing that comes to mind</P><P><A href="http://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/tool-reference/data-management/split-line-at-vertices.htm">http://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/tool-reference/data-management/split-line-at-vertices.htm</A></P><P>Then there is the process of linear referencing...</P><P><A href="http://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/tool-reference/linear-referencing/an-overview-of-the-linear-referencing-toolbox.htm">http://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/tool-reference/linear-referencing/an-overview-of-the-linear-referencing-toolbox.htm</A></P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 05 Feb 2018 16:49:24 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/transportation-questions/exact-distance-location-on-a-line/m-p/510770#M1691 DanPatterson_Retired 2018-02-05T16:49:24Z