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Enable Stationing Fields (Location Referencing Tools)

Summary

Enables or modifies stationing fields so that you can manage stationing information for the registered LRS event.

Stationing is the fundamental system of measurement used for route layout and construction. Stations are reference points that are placed at a regular interval along the horizontal measurement of a route centerline. A starting reference station is established and all distances along the route centerline are measured from that station point.

Learn more about stationing in the ArcGIS Pipeline Referencing events data model or stationing in the ArcGIS Roads and Highways events data model.

Usage

  • Registering a stationing event layer allows you to locate stations with ahead and back station values at any measure along a route in an LRS Network.

  • Only one stationing event layer can be configured in an LRS Network.

  • If stationing fields are already configured, this tool will populate the existing fields so that they can be modified.

  • The Back Station Field parameter is automatically populated when an equation point is present at the station location.

  • The field values provided for the Decreasing Station Values parameter indicate that the station values decrease toward the direction of calibration of the route. If there is no value in the field, it means that the station values increase toward the direction of calibration of the route.

Parameters

Label Explanation Data type

Event Feature Class

An existing event feature class or feature layer that is registered to an LRS.

Feature Layer

Station Field

(Optional)

The field that will be used as the starting reference station.

Field

Back Station Field

(Optional)

The field that will be used as the back station.

Field

Station Value Direction Field

(Optional)

The field that will be used to indicate the direction of increasing stations, either increasing toward the direction of calibration of the route or away from it.

Field

Station Measure Units

(Optional)

Specifies the unit of measure that will be used for stationing.

  • Miles (US Survey)—The unit of measure will be miles. This is the default.

  • Inches (US Survey)—The unit of measure will be inches.

  • Feet (US Survey)—The unit of measure will be feet.

  • Yards (US Survey)—The unit of measure will be yards.

  • Nautical Miles (US Survey)—The unit of measure will be nautical miles.

  • Feet (International)—The unit of measure will be international feet.

  • Statute Miles—The unit of measure will be statute miles.

  • Millimeters—The unit of measure will be millimeters.

  • Centimeters—The unit of measure will be centimeters.

  • Meters—The unit of measure will be meters.

  • Kilometers—The unit of measure will be kilometers.

  • Decimeters—The unit of measure will be decimeters.

String

Decreasing Station Values

(Optional)

A comma-separated list of user-provided values.

String

Derived output

Label Explanation Data type

Output Event Feature Class

The updated feature layer for the event.

Feature Layer

Environments

This tool does not use any geoprocessing environments.

Licensing information

  • Basic: Requires ArcGIS Location Referencing (ArcGIS Pipeline Referencing or ArcGIS Roads and Highways)
  • Standard: Requires ArcGIS Location Referencing (ArcGIS Pipeline Referencing or ArcGIS Roads and Highways)
  • Advanced: Requires ArcGIS Location Referencing (ArcGIS Pipeline Referencing or ArcGIS Roads and Highways)