How to add points to line at every polygon/polyline intersection and have attribute table including distance of new line sements

Question

I am working with polyline shapefile.

I need to add point data at every intersection of polyline/polygon which was no problem->simple intersection.

Problem is, points were not added to the ends (start/end) of each polyline. I am working on a basic license and am very limited to what tools are available. Ideally I would use linear referencing tools, or geometric network but neither one is available to me. I will also need the distance of each new (line segment), I do not want to break up the lines into actual line segments if possible.

Suggestions?

Answer 1

Assumed you have got the intersection points! Now let's see how to extract first and last points of the lines-

1. Add four fields in the attribute table viz FirstPointX, FirstPointY, LastPointX and LastPointY with data type of double.

2. Run python commands serially on the previously created fields as !Shape!.firstPoint.X, !Shape!.firstPoint.Y , !Shape!.lastPoint.Xand !Shape!.lastPoint.Y - this will populate those fields with x and y coordinate of the first and last points of that line.

3. Export this attribute table as dbf or other format and use Add X Y data tool to create points from this table- these points are the reputed first and last points.

4. You may need to remove duplicate points- for this follow this post.

5. Now join the previously created points from Intersection operation.If need to track attribute you may use Spatial Join tool.

This is all!

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EDIT as paul suggested.

If you have ArcMap 10.2.1 or higher then you can use Add Geometry Tool to add first and last point in the attribute table that it will discard 1 and 2 step.