What is the best way to use my existing road dataset to find the shortest run for cable to be buried along the road right of way?

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I have set of specified points (around 20) that the cable needs to hit. I was thinking that network analyst would be the tool to use, but after a couple of hours of playing around with it, I haven't been able to achieve what I am looking for. What is the easiest way to accomplish this?

MDB_GIS · Answer

In my photo above, you can see the data. The blue points are the locations we are trying to hit. I am using road centerline data, however it is accurate to within a few centimeters. I did use the points as stops to generate a route.

MDB_GIS · Answer

I have seen that, but I must be missing something. What I would like to do is to "Prohibit" roads that have an owner attribute of anything other than "County" (Reason being the county doesn't own those right-of-ways and would need to coordinate accordingly with those jurisdictions). But I can't figure out how to configure that.

jcarlson · Answer

I'd start here, if you haven't read that yet. Add the types you need and set them to a prohibited restriction. For the polygon, I would perform a spatial intersection and create a new field, something like in_aoi so that you can add a prefer (high) restriction on those features.