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dead end roads, or lines in my network that only intersect once

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02-26-2024 03:48 PM
L77
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I have a road network and would like to be able to select all of my dead end roads, or roads that only intersect the network at one point.

Is there a way to query for these?

Here is an example: I hand selected some roads that only intersect with another road at one point.

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DuncanHornby
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You can use this tool to extract the dangling node and then use that as the selecting layer in the select layer by location tool.

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Bud
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If for some reason that doesn't work out, you could create points at each startpoint and endpoint and then count (collect?) all the points at each intersection/point. If there are locations where there is only one point, then that would be a dead end. I don't recall all the geoprocessing tools that are needed, but that technique has worked for me in the past.

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L77
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I used the Feature Vertices to Point tool, and selected dangling and it created a point at each endpoint.

In the screenshot it shows points at the end of each line, regardless of how many times the line intersects other lines. I labeled the intersections with numbers so the points highlighted in blue are on lines that have multiple intersections.

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I will need to find another way to just select the lines that only have one intersection.

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Bud
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Could you use Collect Events (Spatial Statistics) or Spatial Join (Analysis) to count the points at each location, then isolate locations that only have 1 point?

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