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 through 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 displays.

   

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

   The Find Routes pane appears.

Find route records

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

1. Open the Find Routes pane.

   

2. Click the Route Reference drop-down arrow and select a layer.
3. Click the Route Identifier drop-down arrow and select a field.

   Note:

   This field can be numeric, text, or GUID.

4. Click the Route drop-down arrow and select a value.
5. Optionally, set the type as Point (default) or Line.
   • For Point, select Point and provide a Location value.
   • For Line, select Line and provide a From value and a To value.

     Note:

     The value entered for Location, From, and To represents the M-value you want to examine within your linear system. M-values are numeric values representing the unit of measure for your linear system, whether that is miles, time, or another unit of measure defined for the dataset.

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

6. 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 OID, you can identify which record needs to be updated.

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.
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	Pop-up —Displays a pop-up pane with attribute information about the record. The Pop-up command is located in More Options

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.