Is it possible to register attributes for parts of a line segment?

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09-13-2017 01:40 AM
RagnhildTveit
New Contributor II

I need to register information on when roads where paved in a road network. The problem is that the paved stretch does not always correspond with the segments making up the network. In other words, only parts of the road segment has been paved that specific year. I'd rather not change the length of the segments, so I was wondering if it is possible to register the information on parts of the segments? Is there any other ways of solving this?

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JoeBorgione
MVP Emeritus

Take a look at linear referencing:  What is linear referencing?—Help | ArcGIS for Desktop 

Also, there is a new extenision from ESRI called Roads and Highways that after seeing a demo looks promising:  Events data model—Roads and Highways Desktop | ArcGIS Desktop 

That should just about do it....
RagnhildTveit
New Contributor II

Hi Joe. I've looked into linear referencing, thanks for the tip!

Do you know if it's possible to host a route event layer to ArcGIS Online? I want to give certain people access to view and edit layers in web apps.

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JoeBorgione
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Take a look at this:  Enabling the linear referencing capability—Help | ArcGIS Desktop 

That should just about do it....
TedKowal
Occasional Contributor III

I believe that is true only if you purchase Roads and Highways to have linear referencing online.  To answer Ragnhild Tveit , I handle pavement Inspection and resurfacing in house and collect the attributes by linear referencing.  The outside collectors and editors edit excel spreadsheets with the data I wish collect along with the route and begin milepost(BMP) and end milepost(EMP).  This data can be "Event Mapped" to the Linear Referenced Route and be managed as a Data table within your Database.

Here is a sample spreadsheet created from a Data Table in which I store the attributes...  All these cross multiple segments.

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JoeBorgione
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Yeah...  All I did was a quick google search and copied the first hit....

That should just about do it....
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