Find routes

Routes contain valuable measurement information. Finding a route allows you to provide a measure value without knowing the route's exact coordinates. The Find Routes pane is available when a map has an m-aware linear layer. You can access the Find Routes pane from the Linear Referencing contextual tab.

Note:

The Find Routes pane currently supports simple features.

Open the Find Routes pane

To open the Find Routes pane, complete the following steps:

1. Add an m-aware layer to the map.

   The Linear Referencing contextual tab appears.

   

2. Click the Linear Referencing contextual tab, and in the Navigate section, click Find Routes.

   The Find Routes pane appears.

   Route records are returned based on search criteria matching the route and m-values.

   The following image is an example of searching for a single m-value:

   

Find Routes record options

The following image shows the commands that can be used to identify a route record that has been located using the Find Routes pane. Each command is explained in the table below.

The following table correlates the numbers in the image above with its corresponding element number and command description.

Element	Description
1	Flash Route —Temporarily display the entire route. Tip: The Flash Route command is used to temporarily display the selected route; however, to persist the selection of the route record, you can click the route record in the map or from the pop-up pane.
2	Flash Route Location —Temporarily display a subset of the route.
3	Zoom to Route —Zoom to display the entire route.
4	Zoom to Route Location —Zoom to display a subset of the route.
5	Draw Route Location —Draw a subset of the route. Note: When a route contains multiple parts or the route is non-monotonic, multiple segments may be drawn.
6	Label Route Location —Label a subset of the route. Note: When a route contains multiple parts or the route is non-monotonic, multiple segments may be labeled.
7	Pop-up —Display a pop-up pane with attribute information about the record. The Pop-up command is located in More Options .

Find, draw, and label route records

The active map must contain an m-aware linear feature to access the Find Routes pane.

To find, draw, and label route records, complete the following steps:

1. Open the Find Routes pane.
2. Set the search type as either Point or Line .
3. Click the Route Reference drop-down arrow and select a layer.
4. Click the Route Identifier drop-down arrow and select a field.

   Note:

   This field can be numeric, text, or GUID.

5. Click the Route drop-down arrow and select a value.
6. Provide the search criteria values and, optionally, set the type as Point (default) or Line.
   • For Point, provide a Location value.
   • For Line, provide a From value and a To value.

     Note:

     The values provided for Location, From, and To represent the m-value you want to examine in the linear system. M-values are numeric values representing the unit of measure for a linear system, whether it's miles, time, or another unit of measure defined for the dataset.

     An example of the Location value is finding all places on the route where the driving speed is 60 miles per hour.

7. Click Find Routes.

   A route record is returned if any route features meet the specified conditions.

   Note:

   Simple datasets do not enforce monotonic routes or unique route identifiers. Two records will be returned in the Find Routes pane when a dataset has two routes with the same route ID. Using the object identifier (OID), you can identify the record that needs to be updated.

8. Click Label Route Location to label segments of a route that match the search criteria.

   A graphic is created and added to the system-created Linear Referencing Graphics layer in the active map. The graphic contains information about the route, from measure, and to measure.

9. Click Draw Route Location to draw segments of a route that match the search criteria.

   A graphic is created and added to the system-created Linear Referencing Graphics layer in the active map. The graphic represents the segments of the route that match the search criteria.

   Note:

   The route graphic is drawn based on meeting more than one m-value for single and multipart routes.