So first of all, I am a student and relatively new to ArcGIS (two classes) so if I'm doing something ridiculous beyond my question, I'd love to hear how I can do this better..
I am working with my neighborhood association to figure out which streetlights in the neighborhood are not working so we can submit an organized list/map to the city with locations, bulb types, wattages, etc., with the hopes this will help them more efficiently fix our lights.
I have the streetlights file and have already done a select by location to narrow it down to just the lights in the neighborhood. While the data is thorough it contains nothing about whether or not the light works. So my plan is to go through the neighborhood at night and record which lights work and which don't. I have selected each street segment and then all the lights within 30 feet of those street segments (ie there are 15 lights within 30 feet of Main Street). My thought was that breaking the neighborhood down by streets would make my collection efforts more efficient.
My issue is that at each intersection, the same light is counted on both streets (in each layer file). This occurs at pretty much every intersection in the neighborhood and there are over 50 intersections. How can I remove all but one of those instances from my layers so that each light is only counted once. It doesn't matter which layer the light ends up being counted on. I am just trying to eliminate duplicates so I'm not wasting time and when I join all my streets back together there are no multiples. Any ideas??
Also, is this even the best way to approach this? To a lesser extent my data will also help the city find out if the electric company has collected accurate data on these streetlights. I am also going to be looking at the spread of the various bulbs to try and identify dark spots in the neighborhood and comparing that to crime data to see if we need more lights in certain areas. Any help or suggestions would be much appreciated.
I am working with my neighborhood association to figure out which streetlights in the neighborhood are not working so we can submit an organized list/map to the city with locations, bulb types, wattages, etc., with the hopes this will help them more efficiently fix our lights.
I have the streetlights file and have already done a select by location to narrow it down to just the lights in the neighborhood. While the data is thorough it contains nothing about whether or not the light works. So my plan is to go through the neighborhood at night and record which lights work and which don't. I have selected each street segment and then all the lights within 30 feet of those street segments (ie there are 15 lights within 30 feet of Main Street). My thought was that breaking the neighborhood down by streets would make my collection efforts more efficient.
My issue is that at each intersection, the same light is counted on both streets (in each layer file). This occurs at pretty much every intersection in the neighborhood and there are over 50 intersections. How can I remove all but one of those instances from my layers so that each light is only counted once. It doesn't matter which layer the light ends up being counted on. I am just trying to eliminate duplicates so I'm not wasting time and when I join all my streets back together there are no multiples. Any ideas??
Also, is this even the best way to approach this? To a lesser extent my data will also help the city find out if the electric company has collected accurate data on these streetlights. I am also going to be looking at the spread of the various bulbs to try and identify dark spots in the neighborhood and comparing that to crime data to see if we need more lights in certain areas. Any help or suggestions would be much appreciated.