Map Index
A map index is used with a grid to locate features in a map. This will describe how to generate the index for the street map.
The street map index looks like this:
- ABBOT'S LN: 17K, 17L
- ABBY WAY: 15O
- ACME ST: 15J
- ACORN BEND: 20L, 20M
It's a list of street names followed by a list of the grid cells that contain the street.
First, dissolve on the feature class being indexed. Dissolve is in the toolbox under Data Management Tools > Generalization. Select the centerline layer for Input Features and select FULNAME for the dissolve field. Other settings can be left as defaults.
Next, do a spatial join of the dissolved class to the grid. Spatial join is in the toolbox under Analysis Tools > Overlay. Select the dissolved layer for Target Features, select the grid for Join Features, leave it as a 1-to-1 join. In the field map of join features, right click the field with the grid cell id ("Grid_Num" in this example) and open the properties. For Merge Rule select "Join" and for a delimiter enter ", "
