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Aug 22, 2016 at 0:43 vote accept GeorgeC
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Mar 9, 2012 at 1:44 comment added PolyGeo From the screenshot you appear to be wanting to join values from your Buffered Tower Range polygons onto your target Signal_Strength_Added points but have the opposite in your Spatial Join dialog.
Mar 8, 2012 at 6:42 answer added GeorgeC timeline score: 1
Mar 8, 2012 at 6:39 comment added GeorgeC yup...I am going to close this question as it is definitely a file size issue. I tried the spatial join in the with a smaller dataset and it worked fine.
Mar 8, 2012 at 6:12 comment added PolyGeo Does it crash with an error message that we can search for? It may give some clues as to whether you are hitting a geoprocessing limit. It sounds like you are intersecting many points, each with potentially many overlapping polygons, which may stretch ArcGIS and the resources available to it. I've not used Spatial Join on large datasets so am not sure how likely that is. If that is the limit being hit then tiling the data first, which you are looking into elsewhere, is the right way to go.
Mar 8, 2012 at 1:31 comment added GeorgeC in both it is point fc as the target and the poly fc as the "join" feature. The process just crashes after a while.
Mar 8, 2012 at 1:24 comment added Stev_k What is wrong with the result? It looks like it should be the same join to me. Are you sur"e you don't have "Target Features" and "Join Features the wrong way round in the Toolbox Spatial Join?
Mar 8, 2012 at 1:20 comment added PolyGeo I'd start by reversing your Target and Join Features - you appear to be wanting to join values from your Buffered Tower Range polygons onto your target Signal_Strength_Added points but have the opposite in your Spatial Join dialog.
Mar 8, 2012 at 1:20 comment added Justin Are they both in the same coordinate system. I know in the python runtime there is some coordinate system switching that was happening to me and I wasn't get the expected results. After I would loop through some spatial intersections I had to re-set the "dataframe" or environment to get accurate results. Perhaps model builder isn't taking care of some on the fly projecting for you like you think.
Mar 8, 2012 at 1:14 comment added GeorgeC The right click join has two options at the top, an attribute join and spatial join as per the image in my question.
Mar 8, 2012 at 1:02 comment added Justin Is this because when you right click join, that is an attribute or common attribute column join. Where as a spatial join is a join based on features from one spatial dataset intersecting feature from a second spatial dataset. They are different types of joins.
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