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Point Angle and Position Wizard

Identifies the closest polyline from the reference layer to each point and calculates: the angle of the closest polyline segment, the position & stationing of the point along the polyline and the distance to the polyline

Inputs:

• Point feature layer
• Reference polyline layer
• Search tolerance - the maximum distance to search for features in the distance layer

Outputs:

• A new  Point feature class. The attribute table of the resulting feature class will have three new fields
  • [ET_Angle] - the angle of the closest segment of the closest to the point polyline
  • [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 distance layer is larger than the Search Tolerance then the [ET_Angle] will have a value of 0, [ET_Pos] and [ET_Station] will have values of -1
• The distances are calculated in the Spatial Reference of the data frame (the View)
• All the attributes of the input point dataset are transferred to the output