I'm looking into various ways of creating points from a line feature class. My line class contains a FromValue field and ToValue field.
At the moment I'm attempting to do this with Linear Referencing, creating a route layer from the line data. If there are better options, then I'd like to hear them.
I have created the Routes using the from and to fields instead of length. After testing, it appears to be fairly accurate for my needs.
Now, what I want to do is to generate points at regular intervals along those routes. So, for each route I want to create a point every 50', and for that point to contain the measurement value.
An alternative would be, rather than to have points at 50' intervals, to show a new point for each integer value.
For example:
RouteName = Hood
Hood.length = 1600
FromValue = 566
ToValue = 680
Option 1: I want to create a new point along Hood every 50', so that the point created at the start of Hood is given the value of 566, and the next point is created 50' farther, with a value of 570 or so.
Option 2: Instead of creating the points every 50', a new point would be created along Hood with each integer value increase. So, there would be points for 566, 567, 568... and they would be placed however far apart they should be for the particular route.
I've managed to do this on a small scale with the Construct Points tool, except that a) the tool can be used only on one line at a time, and b) the points are not given the measurement value from the route.