Snapping "Point to Line" Results to Correct Streets in ArcGIS for Desktop?

Question

Here is the problem I am facing. After geocoding some addresses, I used the "point to line" tool. Some long streets with minimal matching address points created long lines that intersect the road layer. What I need is for the dark blue line to "snap" as close as possible to the light blue road layer.

What I've tried: Densifying the dark blue line and then edge-snapping to the roads layer. The line then snaps to the wrong road sometimes. The vertices of the dark blue line are the points that matched to the light blue line.

Is there anyway I can give the "points to line" result the same street name and then snap to the matching street?

Using ArcMap Desktop Advanced 10.2.

Answer 1

As far as I know, there is no tool to do this automatically in ArcGIS. Of course, spatial join could help to add your +4 ZIP data, but you would not get it for all line segments. The problem is that your lines are quite far from each otherin some places, so that defining an automated rule would not match a trained user. One solution to help identifying the good street would be to filter the light blue based on some attributes (e.g. only keep main roads or iteratively select the road with matching names, one by one in a loop)

Open Jump is an open source solution with more conflation tools than ArcGIS, but in any case you still need manual work.