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Measure Points Wizard

Uses a reference PolylineM(Z) layer to assign measure attributes to the points from a point layer. Allows transfer of any additional attributes. The M/Z value is interpolated from the closest polyline within the user specified search tolerance

Inputs:

• Point feature layer
• Reference PolylineM(Z) feature layer 
• Search tolerance - the maximum distance to search for features in the reference layer

Outputs:

• New  Point feature class. The attribute table of the resulting feature class will have three new fields
  • [ET_ID] - the ID of the point
  • [ET_M]/[ET_Z] - the M(Z) value interpolated from the closest PolylineM(Z) from the reference layer
  • [ET_Pos] - the distance from the start point of the closest polyline to the point along the polyline as a percentage of the total length of the polyline.
  • [ET_Station] - the actual distance from the start point of the closest polyline to the point along the polyline, measured in the map units
  • [ET_Dist] - the shortest distance from the point to the closest polyline measured in the map units

Notes:

• If the distance from a point to the closest feature from the reference layer is larger than the Search Tolerance then the [ET_M]/[ET_Z] for this point will be set to 0, [ET_Pos] and [ET_Station] will have a value of -1
• The larger  the search tolerance is the slower the process will be
• If the Point layer and the Distance layer have different Spatial Reference the distance is calculated in the Spatial Reference of the data frame (the View)