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Given a road layer and a county layer. I need to know the mileage of roads by road name in each county.

How can I do that?

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  • Are you a python user?
    – CwecU
    Nov 9, 2016 at 17:45
  • I am a newbie for python. Know a little bit.
    – fishbone
    Nov 9, 2016 at 18:20
  • intersect, dissolve by county name and within that dissolve tool add field and calculate sum of shape area
    – ziggy
    Nov 11, 2016 at 19:21

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Look at this question : Calculating line segment lengths within polygon using ArcGIS Desktop?

and this one : Calculate line distances inside of polygons using ArcGIS for Desktop?

Both of them have good answers.

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  • Thanks for the answer. I have looked at them before I posted the question but I will take a closer look.
    – fishbone
    Nov 9, 2016 at 18:19
  • I think both of them want the total line length within a polygon which is different. My question is to calculate the percentage of each line record within each of those polygons that intersected...
    – fishbone
    Nov 9, 2016 at 18:27
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    Then a work around will be: to get the lengths of the lines that intersected the polygons in column, get the overall length of the lines in another column and then you can work out the percentage!
    – CwecU
    Nov 9, 2016 at 19:25
  • Not really. I have many line records and each one of them need to do the analysis separately. In your method, I will need to use each line record as a separate layer in order to do that..that is impossible for me to run the anlaysis
    – fishbone
    Nov 9, 2016 at 21:20
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    Using either Union or Intersect, with the source line length as an attribute in the line table is the canonical solution.
    – Vince
    Nov 9, 2016 at 21:35

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