I have a shapefile of U.S. states. I extracted the boundary between two states, resulting in a line segment. For example, the boundary between Georgia and North Carolina.
Is there a way to further divide this boundary into, say, units of 25 mile segments?
Similarly, is there a way to segment the line into equal length segments. For example, taking this border segment, and dividing it into 3 segments of equal length.
I use ArcGIS 10.1 and ArcMap.
And if we have several lines to split (a few thousands)?
Best Answer
The solution to the first part of your question is "Splitting a line into an equal number of parts":
Further down on the same page is a section on "Splitting lines proportionally". This should help you with the second part of your question, although you will need at least a Standard (ArcEditor) license to do this.
As stated above, in previous versions of ArcGIS, dividing lines into segments was accomplished using the Divide command.