Hi everyone,
As a last-ditch effort, I'm looking for help with a problem I think I've researched to death. But hoping I've missed something you all know!
I have a simple problem: I need to calculate the distance between every point in one feature layer (vector points) and the nearest point in another feature layer (vector points), following the roads from a third feature layer (vector polyline). I know the Near tool is nearest euclidian straight-line distance, and I've seen suggestions using raster cost layers, which I could create, or this solution from a previous post: https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-network-analyst-questions/near-analysis-with-network-road-dista..., but it would be prohibitively time consuming for me to create points at each road intersection (there would be thousands).
It seems like point to point distance along a line would be easy to calculate. Am I missing something?
Thanks in advance for the help!