Merging Road Layers

[MikeMckee]

I have two shapefiles containing road data. One is from the city, the other is from the county. They both use different naming conventions in their attribute table. (ie: from right is labeled f_r_add in one and fromright in the other) The county data contains all roads in the county, including the city. The city data includes data only for the city.

I'd like to merge the city's road layer into the county's road layer to ensure that the data for the county is accurate. I'm using ArcView version 10 with no extensions. Every solution I've come across thus far has required a license higher than my ArcView.

Any suggestions?

[AlexeyTereshenkov]

Hi Michael,

I believe that a tool that may do the trick for you is Object Loader:
http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisdesktop/10.0/help/index.html#/Loading_data_with_the_Load_Objects_com...

When using this tool, you can specify the snapping settings to match the end vertices of your city and county road layers, which I think you may need.

Please let us know if this works for you.

[michaelcollins1]

What happens when you use the Merge tool? Also, did you try joining the tables?

[SteveTucker]

I agree with michael. Object loader is fine. Use it.

[JoeBorgione]

Just to add my $00.02...  If you want to design your own attributes, you can do so in an empty feature class and then use the simple data loader.  Just a suggestion....