[GIS] Simplifying road network for cartography

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How do I simplify and merge segments of a complex network for cartographic purposes?

As you can see, i have a lots of segments and i want to merge and simplify to looks neat on a scale of 1: 100 000. I use many arcgis tools to try to make it look neat but its never working reallly good….

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I would like to get neat road segment like this picture. How can i do that?

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Best Answer

You can use the Merge Divided Roads (Cartography) tool for this.

Generates single-line road features in place of matched pairs of divided road lanes. Matched pairs of roads or lanes are merged if they are the same road class, trend generally parallel to one another, and are within the merge distance apart. The road class is specified by the Merge Field parameter. All nonmerged roads from the input collection are copied to the output feature class.

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