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What I have:

  • 1 point layer with adresses.
  • 1 polygon layer with zones.

Points and polygons

What I want: 1 point layer with the polygon info added.

I just did the spatial join, the columns are added but there's no info joined. Everything is NULL. I Googled and there seemed to be a bug, but that was for ArcMap 10 and I have 10.3. I can't find any patches nor servicepacks.

What am I missing here?

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  • does it work if you right click on the point > join > join based on spatial location ? Have you checked your coordinate systems ? What option of spatial join did you use ?
    – radouxju
    Commented Aug 13, 2015 at 12:33
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    Can you confirm your Target and Join feature classes were correct and that join operation was set to "one to many", not the "one to one" default, and match option "intersect"? I've encountered some strange behaviour regarding dissapearing attributes in 10.3 myself. When copying and pasting from one layer to another with the same field structure, attributes are nullified in 10.3. Not sure if this is related but there may be a bug...
    – Jakub Sisak GeoGraphics
    Commented Aug 13, 2015 at 12:36
  • radouxju, It was the projection after all. Very small difference but it was a difference...arghl. A mistake I'm never making again! Thanks for the quick responses radouxju and Jakub!
    – Jay Queue
    Commented Aug 13, 2015 at 12:47
  • Please check your coordinate systems.
    – Jay Queue
    Commented Aug 13, 2015 at 12:50

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SHP with adresses (points) was in a different coordinate sytem as the polygon SHP.

Point SHP:

Geographic Coordinate System: GCS_Belge_1972
Datum: D_Belge_1972
Prime Meridian: Greenwich
Angular Unit: Degree

Polygon SHP:

Projected Coordinate System: Belge_Lambert_1972
Projection: Lambert_Conformal_Conic
False_Easting: 150000,01256000
False_Northing: 5400088,43780000
Central_Meridian: 4,36748667
Standard_Parallel_1: 49,83333390
Standard_Parallel_2: 51,16666723 Latitude_Of_Origin: 90,00000000
Linear Unit: Meter

Geographic Coordinate System: GCS_Belge_1972
Datum: D_Belge_1972
Prime Meridian: Greenwich
Angular Unit: Degree

So with the ArcToolbox > Projections and Transformations > Define Projection I added the Belge_Lambert_1972 to the Point SHP.

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    -1. They were not in different systems. Projection for Point shapefile was wrong or undefined.
    – FelixIP
    Commented Aug 13, 2015 at 20:28

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