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Locate by Intersection

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ClintSteeves1
Occasional Contributor

I work for a rural municipality with a road network based on the Dominion Land Survey (grid roads). It's a very common practice to refer to projects based on their proximity to an intersection of Range Roads and Township Roads. Some functionality that would be great to see is a "Locate Intersection" tool in Roads and Highways, akin to the Locate Route and Measures tool. I recognize that not everyone uses the Intersections feature class, so ArcPro might need to be aware whether or not there is an Intersections feature class in the map--if not present, the tool is greyed out. 

The Intersection Name is already built by the concatenation of the RouteIDs or Route Names of the two intersecting routes. 

I propose that 2 picklists be added: The first picklist would contain all the unique values used for the concatenation (not the results of the concatenation, but the parts that make up the whole). The second picklist would dynamically filter the unique values to contain the remaining unique values that make up the different Intersection Names containing the first choice. (ie if Twp Rd 260 and Rge Rd 10 intersect, but Twp Rd 260 and Rge Rd 20 do not, then if I pick Twp Rd 260 as my first choice, Rge Rd 10 will show up in the second picklist, but not Rge Rd 20). It would also need to allow the reverse: If I picked the 2nd half of the Intersection Name in the first picklist, then the 1st half of the Intersection Name would need to be selectable in the second picklist (ie Twp Rd 260 & Rge Rd 10 is the same interesection as Rge Rd 10 & Twp Rd 260)

I've attached an image to help visualize what I am describing.

2 Comments
AyanPalit

@ClintSteeves1   Thanks for the idea - the use case makes sense.

I am thinking you can get the results using 'Select By Attributes' and use appropriate operation  'Contains' for partial search on RouteName and Intersection. 

ClintSteeves1

Hi @AyanPalit,

Yes, we can definitely do that. I should have specified in the original post, but I was also thinking about non-GIS personnel who are interacting with the data in Event Editor and/or a Web Experience--they're able to use the "Locate Route and Measures" tool, and it would be great to have a "Locate Intersection" tool available for them. The SMEs in our organization who use Pro can use other tools/methods to locate intersections, but I think it makes a lot of sense to have a tool like I've described available right in the core of Roads and Highways.