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Thank you all for your replies. I like the idea of buffering the line to a greater width than needed and then using the poly to clip out the excess. My issues is that the road_poly is not broken up by street segments, but rather, an illogical combination of large groupings of streets with one area. Ultimately, the work around of individually digitizing these segments may be the easiest, but moving forward I will certainly use these ideas, if I have a polygon that would work to clip against. I love this community. Thank you so much. Jay On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 12:05 PM, Jay Metzger <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Good afternoon everyone, > > I am working on a project and could use some help. I have a line shapefile > that I need to buffer. The trick is that I, ultimately, need the buffer to > be exactly the width and length of a roads polygon layer, so that we can > tabulate the area of road work that has been completed . > > Of course, I can buffer the line by a distance, say 10 feet, and the > result is a polygon 10' wide and the length of the line feature. > > I then need to go in and manually edit the vertices, adding new vertices > as needed, to snap the buffered polygon to the exact dimensions of the > roads polygon layer. > > *Does anyone know a way to tell the buffer tool to buffer to the > dimensions of the road polygon, instead of a set distance?* > > I know that I can go in and change the buffer distance for each polygon, > but with the varying dimensions for the roads poly, there is too much > variability. > > I am really trying to find a quicker way to perform this work, without > digitizing each piece of road poly that I need. > > Thank you all, > > Jay > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This list (CTGIS-L) is an unmoderated discussion list for all CT GIS Users. If you no longer wish to receive e-mail from this list, you can remove yourself by going to http://listserv.uconn.edu/ctgis-l.html