Split line by attribute field

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09-11-2012 05:39 PM
ShaunLam
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Hi,
I currently have a single line that I want split at certain distances along it. The distances are all different and in a separate point shapefile. Any ideas ?

Thanks in advance.

Shaun.
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ShaunLam
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Thanks for your replies, Sorry if I was unclear, the point shapefile that I had were not the locations that I wanted the line split at.  To do what I needed to do I treated the line like a route, created a route then used the distance locations in the point file to split it by the locations I needed.

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JonathanQuinn
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What version and license level are you using?  If you have ArcInfo, you can use Split Line at Points.
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JohnSobetzer
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If the points are at the locations you want to split the line and you have ArcInfo/Advanced you might look at the split line at point tool n Data Management Tools - Features.

There is an Arcscript to do this at http://arcscripts.esri.com/details.asp?dbid=14190

Another Arcscript that uses attributes is at http://arcscripts.esri.com/details.asp?dbid=14127 and there is a more recent version in the Net resources although I don't have the link for it right now.  To use this you might use a join to get the point attributes into the line layer.

Also see http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/20402/how-to-divide-a-single-polyline-feature-into-multiple-f....  Also see the thread in this same forum: http://forums.arcgis.com/threads/51332-Dividing-Splitting-Lines
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ShaunLam
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Thanks for your replies, Sorry if I was unclear, the point shapefile that I had were not the locations that I wanted the line split at.  To do what I needed to do I treated the line like a route, created a route then used the distance locations in the point file to split it by the locations I needed.
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