How to calculate the nearest distance from a point to a line?

[suerou lim]

Hi all,

I understand that we can use geonear to calculate the nearest distance from two points (coordinates), however, how do we do that with a point and a line (say, a railway line)? Since the line has almost infinity points (coordinates) on it. Can we still use geonear to do this?

Thank you very much.

[Robert Picard]

See the following post on how to interpolate points on line segments and then use geonear to get the distance to the nearest point.