Problem in splitting and removing Polyline

Question

I am stuck at a problem for weeks, Please Help!!!

I am making program in C# Here is what I need to do --- I have two polylines that are intersecting with each other at some points. I want to delete those portion of one polyline which are going above the other polyline. I am attaching an image explaining the problem I am going through. In this image, I have two Polylines Line1 and Line2. So according to that image, I want to remove the dashed portions of Line2.

Please Help!!! Thanks a ton in advance

Here is what I have done till now.... First I am finding out all the points of intersection of the two lines and saving them in a layer.... Then I am Splitting these lines at these points using this code...

while (pPointF != null)
{
    IPoint pPoint = (IPoint)pPointF.Shape;
    ISpatialFilter pSF = new SpatialFilterClass();

    pSF.Geometry = pPoint;
    pSF.GeometryField = "Shape";
    pSF.SpatialRel = esriSpatialRelEnum.esriSpatialRelIntersects;

    IFeatureCursor pLineCursor = pFeatureclass1.Search(pSF, true);
    IFeature pLineF = pLineCursor.NextFeature();

    while (pLineF != null)
    {
        IPolycurve pPolycurve = (IPolycurve)pLineF.Shape;
        IPoint pToPoint = pPolycurve.ToPoint;
        IPoint pFromPoint = pPolycurve.FromPoint;

        if (pFromPoint.X != pPoint.X && pFromPoint.Y != pPoint.Y && pToPoint.X != pPoint.X && pToPoint.Y != pPoint.Y)
        {
            IFeatureEdit pFeatureEdit = (IFeatureEdit)pLineF;
            pFeatureEdit.Split(pPoint);
        }
        pLineF = pLineCursor.NextFeature();
    }
}

The problem with this code that it is giving different results than expected. As I can see from attribute table, it is generating more than expected parts of line i.e. if there are 5 intersection points then there should be 6 parts of a line, nut it is creating 10-12 parts. Also the number of parts created for both lines are different, which logically should be same. Due to these problems, when I am trying to delete unwanted parts of line, the arcGis crashes..... Please help with this problem. . . . Now I am using a Geoprocessor to do splitting, following is the code:

        SplitLineAtPoint pSplitter = new SplitLineAtPoint();
        pSplitter.in_features = pPolylayer1;
        pSplitter.point_features = pPointsFeatureLayer;
        string outfile = txtDirName.Text + "\\" + "splitted";
        pSplitter.out_feature_class = @outfile;

        Geoprocessor GeoPro = new Geoprocessor();
        GeoPro.Execute(pSplitter, null);

But on the last line, where Geoprocessor is being executed, the ArcGIS crashes... Please tell me where is the problem...

Answer 1

It may make more sense to think of each segment of the second line as being on either the left or right hand side of the first line (based on its direction of digitization), rather than "above" or "below" which is ambiguous.

You could use ITopologicalOperator.Cut to divide the second line into left and right hand parts and discard only the left (or right) parts.